Threatening Message Found at Nyack High School

NYACK, NY — Today at about 1:36 PM the Clarkstown Police Department School Resource Officer was notified of a threatening message found in a boys’ bathroom located on the third floor of the Nyack High School.

"Our department has been working with the Nyack School District to ensure that the situation is responded to promptly and properly," police said. "At this point of investigation, it has been determined that a threatening message was written on a piece of paper hanging on the wall of the bathroom. The message has been determined to not be a credible threat."

The school released the children on the regular school schedule. After school activities will continue as planned and the police department will have additional police units stationed at the school for the duration of school activities today.

The Clarkstown Detective Bureau will continue investigating this incident, reviewing security camera footage and interviewing any potential witnesses. The Nyack School District sent notifications to the student body and their parents about the incident.

Police will continue to monitor school activities to ensure we have a measured response for the coming days, said PIO Peter Walker. We ask that parents and guardians have a discussion with their children to re-affirm the importance of how making false threats can be very dangerous and create an uneasy atmosphere within the school.

If any of the children in the school have any further information about this note they are asked to contact the Clarkstown Police Department at 845-639-5800 or send an anonymous tip using TIP411 which can be found on our Facebook page under “Submit a Tip.”

Schools across the nation have been on high alert since 17 people, many of them students, were killed and 16 more injured in a Valentine's Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Threats to schools, many of them turning out to be unsubstantiated, have skyrocketed.

According to The Educator's School Safety Network, there have been 532 school-based threats or violent incidents in the U.S. since the Parkland shooting — an average of 88.7 per school day. In all, 490 schools in 49 states have been threatened or had actual violence happen, according to the group.

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