The Maury County Sheriff’s Department is seeking the community’s assistance in keeping false information from circulating through the community and its public school district.
MCSD Captain Marcus Albright addressed parents on the ongoing issues of local rumors and that false claims are investigated by the more than 30 local law enforcement agents dedicated to serving the county’s public school district.
Albright spoke to parents this week during a school community meeting hosted by Columbia Central High School.
The presentation followed an incident at Culleoka Unit School that left unsubstantiated rumors being shared on social media after a student made threats online against the small rural campus located in southeastern Maury County.
Instead of sharing those thoughts online, Albright calls on parents, students and members of the community to contact law enforcement and school leadership directly.
“We take very seriously threats to students and the public at-large,” Albright told a group of parents and educators at a meeting held inside a school cafeteria this week.
“We are in an age of information right now, and it is hard to wrap our heads around it,” Albright said. “We live in a time when people want information right now and if you are not willing to give it to them right now then you are hiding something. There is a process that we vet these things through. We work to see where the threat came from and the child responsible. We bring the child in immediately.”
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