Law enforcement urges SC legislators to crack down on school emergency hoaxes

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) – Law enforcement wants to crack down on acts that have sent South Carolina school campuses into emergency mode and traumatized students and staff.

Now they are asking state lawmakers for help to do it.

At a hearing on campus safety earlier this week at the State House, college and university police chiefs from around South Carolina urged the General Assembly to enact stronger laws to curb hoax calls about school emergencies, known as “swatting.”…

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