East Bay School Districts Receive Non-Credible Bomb Threats

EAST BAY, CA — At least a dozen school districts across the East Bay received identical bomb threats that local police departments have deemed non-credible, according to reports. Campuses are open, according to reports from KTVU and Bay City News. The email was distributed across California, according to school officials.

At around 6 a.m. Wednesday, school districts encompassing Antioch, Berkeley, Brentwood, Concord, Clayton, Dublin, Fremont, Hayward, Lafayette, Martinez, New Haven, Oakland, Oakley, Piedmont, Pleasant Hill, Pleasanton, Pittsburg, San Leandro, and likely more received a message threatening that bombs would detonate at 1 p.m. unless “all Russian prisoners and captives and persons from all US jails, prisons and institutions," according to a Facebook post from Brentwood Unified School District.

BUSD said that it contacted the Brentwood Police Department, who deemed the threat not credible. School officials in Oakland and Antioch also received the all-clear from their local departments, according to KTVU. Pleasanton Unified School District, San Ramon Valley Unified School District, and Dublin Unified School District also told families in an email obtained by Patch that local police deemed the threat not credible, but police will have an increased patrol around the campus Wednesday and continue to monitor the situation.

In December, several East Bay schools also received identical threats that were sent around the nation that were deemed non-credible.

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