Threatening email to LAUSD included San Diego

Rep. Adam Schiff, the Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said earlier Tuesday that “the preliminary assessment is that it was a hoax or something created to disrupt school districts in large cities”. Beck defended that decision.

Mayor Garcetti denied that assertion, saying his city had contacted federal law enforcement officials.

Following New York’s decision, Mayor Bill de Blasio said “it’s important, very important not to overreact in situations like this”. Brown’s kids, one in high school and the other in middle school, actually told her the news before breakfast Tuesday morning, she said.

“‘I think it’s irresponsible…to criticize that decision at that point, ‘ Beck said”. NY has invested heavily in homeland security and terrorism response, which might make it easier to process the size of a threat, he said.

Many parents lauded the district’s decision to close schools.

Authorities raised the alarm after several members of the LA school board reported receiving emails threatening violence involving backpacks and packages left at some schools.

“We can not allow ourselves to raise levels of fear”, said Bratton, who once ran the Los Angeles Police Department.

“For most of 2015, the country’s mood, and thus the presidential election, was defined by anger and the unevenness of the economic recovery”, said Democratic pollster Fred Yang, who conducted the survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff. “We’re used to it, sad to say, the way the world is”.

Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) responded by closing every school in the district, while NY assessed the threat and found it to be “non credible”. The facts that NY officials gleaned may have been of benefit to LA.

“I got calls from both schools”, Brown said. The person also claimed to be a jihadist but made errors that suggested the writer was really a prankster, including spelling the word “Allah” with a lowercase “a” and making no reference to the Quran.

Parents bundling up their children on an unusually cold morning received robocalls from Los Angeles schools officials telling them to keep them home.

Since the email did not specifically mention schools in San Diego, San Diego Unified School District directed FOX 5 to FBI investigators.

“Better safe than sorry”, she said. She’s concerned about her daughter feeling safe in class. The district expects a “normal school day” on Thursday, and is encouraging parents to send their children to their regularly scheduled classes. The official, who was not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation, spoke on condition of anonymity.

Regardless, the mass closure means the school district could be shorted millions of dollars in state funding.

District Superintendent Ramon Cortines says he ordered the closure as a precaution.

“At this time, we do not believe the threat is credible”. In the investigation of the San Bernardino attack authorities are still trying to determine if the shooters were also targeting schools.

LAUSD serves more than 640,000 students throughout the Los Angeles area and in multiple nearby cities, according to its website.

As demonstrated by Tuesday’s shutdown of Los Angeles schools, threats can cause large, costly disruptions and traumatize students even in cases that might involve hoaxes.