The district was working Thursday with police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to determine whether the threat originated from the same source as the one in Los Angeles and NY or was a copycat.
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The sender of the email threatened to shoot students and first responders, but again, in a generalized way, Carranza said.
According to employees of CCSD, who refused to name themselves when contacted by the MLN, the CCSD staff consulted with special Local Threat experts and Crisis Response Teams as well as multiple law enforcement agencies, who ultimately deemed the email as non-credible.
Threats closed several schools in central Indiana.
Dallas schools also remain open Thursday after several staff members at an elementary school and high school received threatening emails.
On Thursday, the school was placed on lockdown and after-school activities were canceled.
The Ellensburg School District was one of a number of school districts nationwide that received threat similar to ones received by the Los Angeles and New York City school districts earlier this week. He said three districts in the state received the message.
While most states already have laws that allow prosecution of a school threat as a felony, there have been proposals across the U.S.to increase punishments, said Michael Dorn, executive director of the school safety nonprofit group Safe Havens International.
The district says it will resume classes January 5.
School districts in Houston, Dallas, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, Miami and San Francisco all decided on Thursday that emailed threats were not credible and were similar to ones sent to schools in New York City and Los Angeles earlier this week. The official, who was not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation, spoke on condition of anonymity.
Shafer agreed, “We believe that it’s a possibility the person who is making the threats at Plainfield may also be the same person making the threats related to Danville”.
In Dallas, officials said they would be taking extra precautions in schools, but would not allow anyone to scare the city with terror threats.
They also are not aware of any other threats directed to the Ellensburg School District. Long Beach officials deemed the threat it received late Wednesday night to be not credible and made a decision to keep schools open and on the usual schedule for the district’s 79,000 students.
Repeating: The safety and security of all students is our highest priority, and the entire corporation campus will be closed today, Thursday, December 17. Districts reported receiving the threats via email late Wednesday evening but said they turned out to be “less than credible”.
Law enforcement officers made sweeps of schools.
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A parent got in touch with Goshen High School Tuesday morning to report a threat that a student had posted on Facebook, according to Goshen Community Schools.
