Lockdown Lifted For 41 Maryland Schools
October 11, 2007
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A lockdown of 41 Carroll County schools in Maryland has been lifted, and police are questioning two males about a threatening phone call that was made this morning that prompted it.
Police said that around 10 a.m. a phone call was placed from a pay phone in the Londontowne Shopping Center in Eldersburg to the Carroll County Operations Center. A male caller said, “I’m going to shoot up Century High School” and then hung up, police said.
Maryland State Police immediately dispatched troopers to Century High School, which is in the Winfield area, and school officials decided to lock down all schools in the southern part of the county, under a “code orange” lockdown alert.The lockdown was later extended to all schools in the county, including Carroll Community College.
Police checked each school, and the lockdown was lifted around 1:30 p.m.
Police said they are now questioning two males, one is a minor and a student at Century High School and the other is an adult, police said.
Police will remain stationed at each campus until 4 p.m. today.
What is a Level 2 Code Orange Alert?
•Building administrators shall remain in the school and if not in the school shall return to it.
•Nextel phones will be charged and in the administrator’s possession at all times
• Limit access to building to only primary entrance(s)
• Outside activities are not permitted
• All field trips are cancelled
• Students transitioning between portable buildings, etc. are allowed to do so under the direct supervision of an adult
• Entire staff on a heightened alert for any suspicious activity in or around the school
• Every effort is made for school and instruction to operate as normal as possible
• No use of facilities after school day – after school care will operate within the building as normal unless otherwise noted
• Superintendent will declare a state of emergency and allow principals to assign teachers to assist with the needed monitoring of the facility
• Use site-based permanent substitutes to assist assistant principal in the monitoring
• Instructional supervisors will be assigned to the schools as needed.
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