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Server glitch triggers prerecorded lockdown message; police, district review response
Summary
A security-server reboot at Starpoint CSD triggered a prerecorded 'real lockdown' message that played across one campus, prompting an immediate multi-agency police response. District leaders apologized, described corrective steps and said they will adjust communications and protocols to avoid a repeat.
A prerecorded 'real lockdown' announcement played across one Starpoint Central School District campus after a security-server reboot, prompting school staff to follow lockdown protocols and drawing a multi-agency law-enforcement response. The district said no threat was present and that it will change procedures to reduce the chance of a repeat.
Superintendent (name not specified) told the board the message played during a transition period and affected kindergarten through 12th grade on that campus. "I apologize to our families and to our staff for having to endure that," he said, adding that police were on site within three minutes and "there were five different agencies on their way here." He described the incident as a computer glitch tied to a server reboot that inadvertently triggered the prerecorded message.
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