FBI investigating online threat that shut two IN schools

The San Francisco school district is the seventh largest in California, according to its website, and enrolls roughly 57,000 students.

On Thursday, the school was placed on lockdown and after-school activities canceled.

“We’ve dealt with Facebook, and Snapchat, and different social media issues in the past with cases but nothing to this affect that’s spread to this type of magnitude”, said Captain Jill Lees, with Plainfield Police.

Notwithstanding this less than credible threat, it is the district’s responsibility to share this information with the community.

Someone on Facebook was tagging students, threatening violence, and posting for people to “watch the news”. In a tweet sent Thursday, the district announced that all schools would be open Thursday morning as scheduled. “Parents are responding emotionally, and school staff oftentimes respond to the community anxiety and potential pushback that they may get if they leave kids in school”.

In central IN, two school districts canceled classes Thursday.

Faced with increased threats, the challenge for schools is to determine when to evacuate. Classes were not canceled in Goshen.

“It did cause a lot of nervousness with the parents and the students”, said William Wright, Danville Police Chief. A regular school day is expected today and tomorrow. Authorities arrested two students early Friday morning, according to the chief. However, after consulting with police and the FBI, San Francisco chose to keep schools open, following a sweep of 130 schools by trained staff. Carranza said, “All education sites in San Francisco Unified School District have now been swept or scanned and nothing suspicious was found”.

President Obama assured the nation Thursday that there are no “specific and credible” terror threats to the United States, on the same day emails to schools across the country triggered closings and heightened security.

“The elementary schools, I hope they don’t mention it to them because they’ll just be afraid to go to school”, said Workman.

Campus safety officials predict the number of school threats related to terrorism will continue to rise.

District officials were immediately notified and the school system’s police department activated its emergency protocol.

Wright said officials are investigating and taking the threats seriously.

School will resume on January 4.

Mock said he didn’t want to downplay the message because “a threat is a threat”, but the email referred to weapons and explosives among unsophisticated content that was “so far over the top the logistics just didn’t pan out”.