On Tuesday morning, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, a governmental agency which operates hundreds of schools in Los Angeles and nearby areas, sent all its students home. The agency did not make its buses available, but instead asked parents to pick up their children from outside the schools. Superintendent Ramon Cortines ordered all the schools in the district closed because of a threatening message regarding "many schools" which was received by a member of the school board. Cortines called the closure a "precaution based on what has happened recently." Police and the district's "plant managers" are searching the campuses.
Sources:
From Reuters:
The unprecedented move left some 643,000 students of the Los Angeles Unified School District and their families scrambling to make alternate arrangements and drew criticism as officials in New York said they received the same threat and deemed it not to be credible.
A law enforcement source told Reuters that Los Angeles authorities ordered the closure to allow a full search of about 900 public school facilities without consulting with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which takes the lead on any potential terrorism investigation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @10:34PM
I thought that the ban on liquids for a week or so in response to a specific threat was reasonable. Dragging the ban on for years, not so much.
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Tuesday December 15 2015, @10:47PM
The TSA's existence itself is not reasonable or constitutional, so no. Taking away the rights of everyone--even temporarily--merely because some people are bad is disgusting.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 16 2015, @01:49AM
You thought that because you are poorly informed about how difficult it is to manufacture a binary explosive onboard a commercial aircraft. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [theregister.co.uk]
Man, I miss Thomas C. Greene's column in El Reg.
-- gewg_
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 16 2015, @08:23PM
Liquid explosives have been used in the past.
For example Korean Air Flight 858 [wikipedia.org] in 29 November 1987.
Other mentions involving liquids:
Northwest Airlines Flight 253 (underwear bomber) [wikipedia.org]
Philippine Airlines Flight 434 [wikipedia.org]