24 Polk County students arrested for written threats since start of ...
WEB1 day ago · POLK COUNTY, Fla. - Since the start of the 2024-2025 school year in Polk County, 24 students have been arrested for written or online threats, Superintendent Fred Heid announced on Thursday. Heid held a press conference with Sheriff Grady Judd on the recent surge in threats since the fatal shooting at Apalachee High School in …
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WEB1 day ago · Polk County School District Superintendent Fred Heid announced the shocking number of arrests during a news conference Thursday, just weeks after a fatal shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia.
Polk authorities to address rise in school threats
WEB1 day ago · Superintendent Fred Heid and Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd will hold a news conference Thursday to discuss the threats and provide a message to students and parents.
Alarming Increase in School Threats an Alert For Parents Who …
WEB1 day ago · Polk Sheriff Grady Judd echoed Heid's comments, pointing out that law enforcement cannot afford to take any threat lightly and will respond in force. Polk School Superintendent Polk County School Superintendent Fred Heid and Polk Sheriff Grady Judd conducted a news conference at the Polk School offices in …
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WEB1 day ago · Fred Heid, Polk County Schools superintendent, shared their “zero tolerance” policy in a Thursday morning press conference, “pleading with” parents to remind their kids of the lifelong consequences of making threats. In the first 28 school days, 24 students in Polk County were arrested for making online threats against local campuses.
Rise in students making threats of violence to Polk ... - ABC Action News
WEB2 days ago · Heid said the school district has a zero-tolerance policy. Anyone making a threat of violence is also expelled and will have to pay restitution for the costs it takes to investigate these cases ...
Superintendent, sheriff warn of rise in threats toward Polk schools
WEB1 day ago · In the 28 days since school began in August, law enforcement had arrested 24 students for making written threats to kill, Heid said Thursday during a news conference at the district office in Bartow.
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WEB1 day ago · Polk Co. superintendent, sheriff on school threats. Polk County Superintendent Fred Heid and Sheriff Grady Judd spoke on school safety and recent arrests for student threats in the wake of the Apalachee High School shooting in Georgia. Posted September 19, 2024 9:47am EDT.
PCPS Responds to Reports About District Employee
WEBJul 14, 2022 · On Friday (July 8), a blog post and podcast were published regarding the Polk County School Board’s hiring of Frederick Heid as superintendent. These online stories have been circulating on social media, and news media have asked PCPS for comment (see The Ledger’s story here).
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WEBFrederick Heid. In April 2021, Frederick Heid was unanimously selected by the Polk County School Board to become the new superintendent of Polk County Public Schools.