Parents: Why Didn’t District Notify About Crime Alert?
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South-Western City Schools parents ask why the district didn’t immediately notify them about a crime alert.
GROVE CITY, Ohio—South-Western City Schools parents wanted to know why the district didn’t immediately notify them about a crime alert.
NBC 4 reported with the FAST FACTS.
Grove City police issued an alert last week about a suspicious man who allegedly importuned two girls at a local school-bus stop.
GCPD said the man has been driving past the school-bus stop at the corner of Haley and Natalie drives in the Hoover Park subdivision.
Parents said they weren’t notified about the alert until this week.
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“I talked to someone at the district today, and they took full responsibility, and that’s great. They apologized, and that’s great, but it doesn’t fix it. Luckily, nothing happened this time, but that was just pure luck,“ parent Sue Barnes said.
A district spokesperson said she thought the district was on the Grove City police alert list but the district didn’t get the alert right away.
She said she made sure the district is on direct-alert status.
She also said since the incident was isolated to one area, only families who live in the area were notified about the alert.
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I live just one street over, and we were not notified until yesterday when the paper went home from school. Very scary! Someone should have notified the people of Hoover Park!
43123 - It doesn’t say anywhere that people were notified last week. It says that the district THOUGHT people were notified. I also live in the school district, but in another area. I sure hope that this creep doesn’t come to my neighborhood. The bus stop at the corner where my daughter gets on is almost all girls - every grade level on every bus. Disappointing that the school district wasn’t on the ball making sure we were notified right away.
Were did the lie come from about the people in the neighborhood were notifed about it last week. I live one block from that intersection and only found out about it when a letter was sent home from school yesterday.
Everyone should have been notified. You have to think like a criminal maybe that was his plan to go into that subdivision so the police are only on the lookout there. He could then very easily go to another neighborhood.
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