ALAMEDA, CA \u2014 A “threatening” phone call to administrators at Alameda High School prompted a shelter-in-place response Monday morning, according to authorities. <\/p>\n
Police say campus administrators received a “threatening phone call” at around 10 a..m. about a “suspicious” device in the campus parking lot. <\/p>\n
Officers responded to the high school and began searching it to establish whether the caller had made a credible report, according to the Alameda Police Department. Students and staff, meanwhile, were told to shelter in place. <\/p>\n
No suspicious device was ever found, and officers deemed the report was not credible. The shelter-in-place was lifted at around noon, police said. <\/p>\n
“The safety of students and staff remains our highest priority, and all threats of this nature are taken extremely seriously,” the department said in a statement on social media. “We are aware that similar messages were reported at schools across the nation today and last week.”<\/p>\n
It’s unclear who called the officers or whether they have able to identify a suspect. Police say the phone call school officials received appeared to have been pre-recorded. <\/p>\n
The case been referred to the department’s investigation unit for a follow-up, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALAMEDA, CA \u2014 A “threatening” phone call to administrators at Alameda High School prompted a shelter-in-place response Monday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-161105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}