Update: Police Explain Lockdown at Carlsbad Schools

Updated 7:40pm Friday

At 11:50 a.m. Friday, families with children in the received the following email from the district:

"This is a quick note to let you know that we directed schools to lockdown due to reports of a safety threat. We were rapidly able to determine that there was no credible threat and ended the lockdown within a few minutes. Thanks."

issued a press release stating, "at 11 a.m. an unidentified  parent received and unfounded alert through their mobile device, apparently intended for students at Georgetown University (Washington D.C.), warning of a Carlsbad Campus lock down, due to a possible man with a gun on campus." The concerned parent contacted the school district. According to the district a number of parents received the same threat alert. The district put all schools on lockdown while police increased patrols around and in the campuses, clearing each campus of any threat.

The Carlsbad Police Department said, "online news sources report that the Georgetown University Law Campus was put on lock down for a report of a man with a gun at approximatelhy the time the unfounded alert was received by the Carlsbad resident."

CUSD found the threat to not be credible an students were released from lockdown around 12:20 p.m.

District Superintendent John A. Roach, Ed.D. said the catalyst for the threat is under investigation. “Many school districts across the country utilize digital communications alert programs similar to ours. It is possible that the threat alert was received erroneously by CUSD parents, either through corruption of the electronic system or as a result of a threat elsewhere in the nation."