“It’s what no governor, it’s what no parent or anybody - superintendent, teachers, kids - want to hear,” Reynolds said. Kim Reynolds complained at a news conference about the toll it was taking to confirm the terror-inducing calls are fake. In Iowa, so many schools were targeted earlier this month that Gov. Another threat at a nearby Catholic school had worried parents gathered outside. “We treated it as a real incident,” Stangrecki said. Police in Pittsburgh, for instance, searched every room at Central Catholic High School, even after getting word that a report of people being hurt inside wasn’t true within a minute, said Thomas Stangrecki, the interim police chief. Law enforcement had to take each one seriously no matter how dubious it seemed. The false calls Wednesday in Pennsylvania led to lockdowns or evacuations in several counties, according to state police. The FBI didn’t immediately respond to emails Wednesday from The Associated Press seeking comment, but the threats have continued to accumulate in recent months.įew regions of the country have been spared from such calls and the disruptions they cause. Officials said at the time that they had identified calls to about 250 colleges, 100 high schools and several junior high schools just since early June falsely reporting explosive devices being planted at the schools or saying that a shooting was imminent. The goal is to get authorities, particularly a SWAT team, to respond to an address.Īn FBI official said in November that they believe the wave of false threats focused on schools may be coming from outside of the country. Hundreds of cases of swatting occur annually, with some using caller ID spoofing to disguise their number.
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