Hoaxes in which people call police with false reports of school shootings – known as “swatting” – can cause real physical and mental trauma, among other dangers. That’s part of what NASRO executive director Mo Canady wrote in a guest column in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
At least one swatting call to a person’s residence led to an accidental killing, Canady wrote. And a swatting call that targeted a school this fall led to the injury of a responding officer in a crash.
Mental trauma experienced by students, faculty, staff and parents can be the same as that experienced by survivors of real mass shootings, Canady continued.
To learn more about these and other dangers of school swatting hoaxes, read the full article.