{"id":471849,"date":"2026-09-22T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/471849\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T11:00:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:00:43","slug":"update-lockdown-lifted-at-long-beach-schools-after-potential-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/471849\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Lockdown lifted at Long Beach schools after \u2018potential threat\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LONG BEACH, Miss. (WLOX) \u2014 A lockdown has been lifted at Long Beach High School and all other schools in the district. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe want to reassure our families and community that our students and staff are safe,\u201d the school district said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1BvJHPE65J\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1BvJHPE65J\/\">statement on social media.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The lockdown began around 10:30 Monday morning due to a potential threat, according to the school district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Long Beach Police Chief Billy Seal confirmed the threat was made specifically to the high school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials with the Long Beach Police Department, along with the Harrison County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the Gulfport Police Department, and the Biloxi Police Department, assisted on the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials said an increased law enforcement presence may still be noticeable around schools as an additional precaution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">The investigation into the threat is ongoing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">See a spelling or grammar error in this story? Report it to our team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlox.com\/page\/error-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WLOX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Miss. (WLOX) \u2014 A lockdown has been lifted at Long Beach High School and all other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[32525,131,133,67606,132,185206,75534],"class_list":["post-471849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-lockdown","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-high-school","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-school-distirct","tag-long-beach-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471849","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=471849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}