Several counties are emphasizing how seriously threats are being taken and highlighting their added security measures.

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office in Florida has detained 24 public school students since the academic year commenced for alleged written or online threats. Fred Heid, Superintendent of Polk County ...

Polk County, Florida, law enforcement and school administrators are working together to hold students who make threats to ...

Polk County Public Schools has seen an alarming increase in students making online threats to either bomb or shoot up a school. In the first 28 days of school there have been 24 students arrested.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Pasco County Fire Chief Anthony Perez resigned on Thursday, according to an agency spokesperson. The spokesperson confirmed Perez’s resignation but didn’t provide details.

Officers acting on a tip located parts of a handgun among other contraband in a 14-year-old student’s backpack at Ocoee High ...

The governor commended the response of local law enforcement agencies in the Sunshine State as reports of student arrests ...

A Florida dad is being praised as “fearless,” after deputies said he attacked and chased after a man accused of peeping on his 14-year-old daughter.

Deputies responded around 11:20 p.m. to 497 Sun Lake Circle in unincorporated Lake Mary, where they found the man dead in the ...

By Carl Fish Hezedean Smith, who became Polk County Fire Rescue (PCFR) Chief in November 2022, resigned effective September 30, 2024. His resignation followed a critical report commissioned by the ...

Twenty-four students have started the school year in Polk County in handcuffs and kicked out of school after making threats, ...

The newborn is now a proud owner of a talking Sheriff Grady Judd doll while her parents got some baby essentials.