Round Rock ISD Police says they never wait to send units if there is a suspected threat on campus.
Round Rock ISD Police Chief Dennis Weiner says the department now believes the threats were swatting calls, or when someone calls in a fake threat with the intention of causing a large police response.
“When the initial threat comes in, we try to identify whether or not a specific campus is identified or named, and if so, then we start pre-positioning units to that school while we further investigate the threat,” Weiner said. Weiner said that during Thursday's incident, they cleared the campus out of an abundance of caution even though they didn’t have a description of anyone.What we know about the 3 Austin-area high schools that received threats Thursday
“One of the most important things that we try to do is give the most accurate information out, and sometimes that delays the ability to push it out,” Weiner said. “If we're not really sure what we have yet, we don't want to speculate because that could create a lot of anxiety in the community that's unnecessary."
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