The Newport Police Department contacted the school to inform us that they received a call from a district resident with concern over a social media post involving Newport Schools. This was a Snapchat post that mentioned Newport students should not go to school on Friday. At this time we do not know much more information, but we take every possible situation seriously. This could very easily be someone seeing a post with Newport in the name and sharing, but not actually be this Newport School District as the intended location.
It is completely unsubstantiated and unverified at this time, but we are much better equipped to deal with these situations based on new security features recently put in place by the district. There will be an increased security presence on campus and new security measures will be in use. Again, let me state that this is completely unsubstantiated at this point, but the police department is doing their due diligence in this case and the district will always have the safety and security of our students and staff members as a top priority.
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Jon Bradley