Since the start of the 2024-2025 school year in Polk County, 24 students have been arrested for written or online threats, ...

Polk County, Florida, law enforcement and school administrators are working together to hold students who make threats to ...

Polk County Superintendent Fred Heid and Sheriff Grady Judd spoke on school safety and recent arrests for student threats in ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. - Since the start of the 2024-2025 school year in Polk County, 24 students have been arrested for written or online threats, Superintendent Fred Heid announced on Thursday.

Polk County School District Superintendent Fred Heid announced the shocking number of arrests during a news conference Thursday, just weeks after a fatal shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia.

Polk County Public Schools has seen an alarming increase in students making online threats to either bomb or shoot up a school. In the first 28 days of school there have been 24 students arrested.

Amid a spate of school shooting threats less than a month into a new school year, Florida school districts are reminding ...

Polk Schools Superintendent Fred Heid sent a letter to parents Aug. 30 explaining the change in the district’s policy. That came just four days after the district informed parents of the new ...

Several counties are emphasizing how seriously threats are being taken and highlighting their added security measures.