Watertown School Officials Reviewing Response to Lockdown of High School

When a student discovered a bullet outside Watertown High School two weeks ago, the school went into lockdown and most of the people in the building were searched by police from Watertown and several other communities.

Interim Superintendent Jean Fitzgerald praised response of NEMLEC (the North Eastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council), which sent officers to WHS when the bullet was found. Officials want to improve the response in case another such incident arises.

All the students were searched to make sure they did not have a weapon, Fitzgerald told the School Committee last week, and many teachers were searched too, but not all.

"In some cases teachers were not searched," Fitzgerald said. "That's something that needs to change. Everyone should have been searched."

Watertown Police also reviewed footage from motion-activated cameras outside the school, Fitzgerald said.

"They reviewed the footage from the following day, up until the time the bullet was found," Fitzgerald said. "They could not see anything."