{"id":43158,"date":"2021-12-17T19:07:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T02:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortez-schools-get-additional-security-after-national-threats\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:12:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:12:03","slug":"montezuma-cortez-schools-get-additional-security-after-national-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortez-schools-get-additional-security-after-national-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma-Cortez schools get additional security after national threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b1f0ce47-1a75-4f9d-933a-505d70ed1655&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1333\" height=\"641\" alt=\"The Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1 released a letter Thursday informing families of district COVID-19 cases.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1 released a letter Thursday informing families of district COVID-19 cases.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Erika Alvero<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1 bolstered police presence in its schools Friday after alleged threats of national concern were issued on social media, according to a 10:25 a.m. press release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Board of Education and the Superintendent wanted you to know we have additional police presence in our building today due to nationwide threats that were made on social media. We are taking safety precautions while maintaining our daily educational experience,\u201d the release said.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged threats were suspected to have been proclaimed on video-based social media platform TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of statements posted to its Twitter account, beginning Thursday afternoon, TikTok\u2019s communications team reported that it hadn\u2019t discovered evidence of violent threats toward schools on its network.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ed0f20a8-fad5-50da-af5f-bb7eef68cbc2&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1202\" height=\"1285\" alt=\"TikTok school threats\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">TikTok school threats<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Videos discussing the rumor, however; had been found, the team reported Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent tweet, posted at 9:32 a.m., said the FBI, U.S. Department of Homeland Security and local authorities had cleared the social media site for credible threats.<\/p>\n<p>Posts spreading misinformation were being removed, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>threats were issued on its platform <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[155,28,167,216,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-43158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-education","tag-headlines","tag-local-news-lead","tag-montezuma-cortez-school-district-re-1","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85595,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43158\/revisions\/85595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43158"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=43158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}