{"id":387239,"date":"2026-09-01T14:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/387239\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T14:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:40:15","slug":"2-hollywood-schools-placed-on-lockdown-over-potential-threat-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/387239\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Hollywood schools placed on lockdown over \u2018potential threat,\u2019 officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0September 1, 2026 at 10:05 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0September 1, 2026 at 10:27 AM<\/p>\n<p>Broward County Public Schools: \u2018All students and staff are safe\u2019Hollywood Hills High School and Stirling Elementary School were placed on lockdown Tuesday morning while law enforcement investigated what they called a \u201cpotential threat\u201d in the area.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HOLLYWOOD, Fla.  \u2014 Hollywood Hills High School and Stirling Elementary School were placed on lockdown Tuesday morning while law enforcement investigated what they called a \u201cpotential threat\u201d in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Broward County Public Schools spokesperson told Local 10 News that all students and staff are safe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hollywood Hills High School is located at 5400 Stirling Road, while Stirling Elementary School is located at 5500 Stirling Road. Both schools are in Hollywood. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hollywood Police Department officials said officers were conducting an investigation near 56th Avenue and Stirling Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sky 10 flew over Hollywood Hills High School at about 9:45 a.m. and observed a heavy police presence on the school\u2019s campus as officers investigated the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cOut of an abundance of caution, schools in the immediate area have been placed on lockdown while officers conduct their investigation,\u201d Hollywood police wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/18EchXZHhU\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/18EchXZHhU\/\" target=\"_blank\">statement on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities asked the public to avoid the area and allow officers to safely carry out their duties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No additional details about the reported threat were immediately released.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0September 1, 2026 at 10:05 AM Updated:\u00a0September 1, 2026 at 10:27 AM Broward County Public Schools: \u2018All students&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-387239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}