AACT Placed on Temporary Code Red Lockdown, But School Has Resumed Normal Operations

The Academy of Arts, Careers and Technology school was placed on a temporary code red lockdown early Monday morning.

The Washoe County School District says the lockdown started around 8:15 a.m. on Monday.

It resumed normal operations, about 10 minutes later.

Here is a transcript of the Connect Ed phone call made to parents:

Good afternoon, AACT families—

This is Principal Mike Gifford, and I would like to share some important information with you:

On our campus today, a brief Code Red alarm was mistakenly initiated by a staff member.

This inaccurate information was broadcast to our students, but there was no Code Red emergency at our school today.

Teaching and learning will continue until the normal dismissal time, and everyone is safe.

Once again, there was no Code Red emergency on our campus today, and we are investigating the reasons for the error.

We appreciate your understanding.

Thank you.

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Buenas tardes familias de la escuela AACT,

Este es un importante mensaje a nombre del director Mike Gifford con información para compartir con ustedes:

Hoy en nuestra escuela se activó por error una alarma de Código Rojo por un miembro del personal.

Esta información errónea se emitió a todos nuestros estudiantes, pero hoy no hubo una emergencia de Código Rojo en nuestra escuela.

El aprendizaje y la enseñanza continuará de forma habitual hasta la hora de salida y todos están seguros.

Repetimos, no hubo una emergencia de Código Rojo en nuestra escuela hoy, y estamos investigando las razones del error.

Agradecemos su comprensión.