Schools, law enforcement work together in responding to school threats

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Threats of unit to South Valley schools are keeping instrumentality enforcement and schoolhouse districts connected precocious alert arsenic they enactment to place imaginable threats and halt them earlier students get hurt.

Early Tuesday greeting astir 1:30 with conscionable 3 officers connected work astatine the Lindsay Police Department an urgent alert came successful from the FBI.

Someone had posted online threatening a schoolhouse shooting astatine Lindsay High School aboriginal that day.

Immediately much officers were called to assistance arsenic they worked to find an IP code and carnal code to find who made this menace and however superior it truly was.

"Threats of this quality with the things that spell connected successful our state successful the past and present, we instrumentality this precise superior and we person to enactment connected them immediately," said Lindsay Police Chief Rob Moore.

Just a fewer hours later, astir 5 am, Chief Rob Moore said his officers were astatine the location of a 15-year-old miss who admitted to making the station hoping to widen her vacation weekend.

Moore says the household doesn't person immoderate guns astatine location truthful determination was nary existent menace but she was booked connected a precise existent complaint of making transgression threats.

Lindsay Unified School District sent Action News a connection that read:

"Prior to the commencement of the schoolhouse day, the Lindsay Police Department confirmed that determination was nary contiguous menace to immoderate of our schoolhouse sites. In collaboration with the LPD, Lindsay Unified School District promptly informed families and unit astir the concern and the solution of the imaginable threat. We stay committed to moving intimately with section instrumentality enforcement to guarantee the continued information of our learners and staff."

Only weeks into the schoolhouse year, 2 different Tulare County schools were threatened.

On August 16, Visalia constabulary arrested a 13-year-old lad for threatening a shooting astatine Ridgeview Middle School that menace was seemingly made connected a video call.

Then 10 days later, connected August 26th, a pupil was arrested astatine Golden West High School aft they allegedly posted connected societal media that they had a weapon connected field and constabulary recovered the weapon successful a car successful the schoolhouse parking.

Visalia Unified School District has steps successful spot to code these kinds of incidents.

"The archetypal happening we bash is deploy our menace assessment, find what level menace it is, and we besides bring successful our Visalia Police Department to assistance america portion we're doing that," said Terri Martindale, Visalia Unified School District.

After a menace is made and the schoolhouse assemblage is alerted, a situation squad of societal workers and psychologists is sent to campus.

"We privation to beryllium determination to marque them consciousness harmless and marque definite that they cognize that however they're feeling is valid and we privation to marque definite to get them backmost connected the close way truthful they tin larn and that they consciousness similar schoolhouse is simply a harmless place," said Martindale.

The territory besides increases instrumentality enforcement beingness on-site including undercover officers.

Martindale with Visalia Unified said students could beryllium expelled for making threats connected apical of the transgression charges they could face.

VUSD students are encouraged to study threats they spot oregon perceive to schoolhouse officials oregon anonymously done the Say Something system.

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