Task force formed to address threats to school districts

With the increased number of threats being made to different school districts around the region — including several recently to Cheboygan Area Schools — a task force was created to address school safety issues.

The heads of law enforcement around Cheboygan County — Cheboygan County Sheriff Dale Clarmont, Cheboygan Department of Public Safety Director Kurt Jones, Tuscarora Township Police Chief Gordon Temple and Mackinaw City Police Chief Todd Woods — met earlier this month. The law enforcement officials agreed the best way to address any threats involving the school districts and children of the county was to create the unified task force.

Clarmont presented this task force to the Cheboygan County Board of Commissioners at its Dec. 14 meeting, explaining the need and duties of this newly formed task force.

"As you're all aware, we had two school threats to our Cheboygan School district last week," said Clarmont. "I believe we're the only school district, entity, in the nation that not only had two threats, but we arrested two people. One was a juvenile that was a local resident."

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