Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood is making good ... Chitwood pointed to a dramatic increase in school shooting threats in ...

Fed up with a recent string of false school shooting threats, a Florida sheriff followed through with a warning he made last ...

A Crestview middle schooler is being hailed as a hero, and another was arrested and charged after an investigation into ...

“I believe Florida needs to enact a fine ... In a Facebook post, Sheriff Chitwood noted that since his announcement school threats had been reduced from 188 down to 40, a 79% reduction with ...

the sheriff’s office said it’s seen success. Officials said there were 17 “Fortify Florida” tips about school threats last week. Read: ‘We will chase you down:’ law enforcement ...

On the heels of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office announcing dozens of arrests over the last three months News4JAX spoke with ...

Law enforcement is steadily cracking down on students making callous threats against schools in Florida. In Duval County, the Jacksonville Sheriff ... in any school charter school, online ...

"Kids need to realise that what they post and send on social media is not private," Sheriff Chitwood said A Florida sheriff frustrated by a series of false school shooting threats released a ...

“Students must understand the seriousness of making threats about school violence,” Sheriff Rick Wells previously ... graduated from University of South Florida St. Petersburg.

A 14-year-old killed four and wounded nine in Georgia in September, setting off a wave of “copycat” school threats in Florida and around the nation. The increase in threats prompted sheriff ...

A 10-year-old boy in Florida is facing a felony charge after his father turned him in Thursday for threatening to “shoot up” an area high school. According to the Wakulla County Sheriff’s ...

Chitwood said his department had seen 357 written threats to kill or shoot up a school. In case you are wondering, that is not only an unfunny joke, it is also a felony. Plus, the sheriff said ...