Brooks has proposed legislation that would make a public death threat a medium-grade felony, with more severe consequences if anybody is hurt during an evacuation.
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The Plainfield Police Department has been working with the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC) since the beginning of this investigation.
When it comes to assessing threats, schools in New York City and Los Angeles likely have more experience than most other districts in the country.
But threats like one written on a bathroom wall at Franklin High School on Thursday and what administrators called more serious threats made to school district headquarters later in the day are taken more seriously now before they are fully investigated, just over two weeks after the murders of 14 people at a holiday party in San Bernardino by a husband and wife who had sympathies for ISIS.
On the east coast in Washington D.C., Anacostia High School and Frank W. Ballou Senior High School were evacuated Thursday afternoon due to bomb threats, but within a few hours officials gave the all-clear and declared the threats a hoax.
All after-school activities are canceled at Plainfield High School.
Coons said his team has been following the Facebook posts and are well aware of the situation.
The Plainfield Police Department is still looking for information after threats targeted Plainfield High School.
Danville Police Chief William Wright said, “There is also a third threat that was received early this morning that is tied to the Plainfield [Community] School Corporation threat”. NY schools received the same threat but deemed it a hoax and did not close. The New York Daily News reported that New York City shared the email they had received with Los Angeles officials after they had opted to close their schools. Gov. Jerry Brown said the conduct covered by the bill was already illegal and he wanted to limit additions to a voluminous criminal code.
Officials in Plainfield, Indiana, on their website said: “A threat has been directed to the high school, and the safety and security of all students is our highest priority”, adding that they are working with public safety officials in what is an ongoing investigation. We chose to ask what preparations local school districts have in place to protect our kids.
While investigators do not know who sent the messages, they say all of the emails were routed through a server in Germany run by Vincent Canfield.
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Several students received an online threat Wednesday evening claiming an attack against the school. In both iterations, the anonymous correspondent complained of being bullied for four years in each school district, a claim that was on its face impossible according to the tabloid’s reporting. The district has more than 265,000 students. Almost 10 percent of the threats closed school for at least one day.
