Schools warned to be on the lookout for 'swatting' calls faking bombs or active shooters

New federal guidelines have been issued to help schools distinguish between real emergency threats and hoax swatting calls.
The new federal guidelines offer advice for schools to quickly determine whether a call about an emergency is real or a hoax.
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