A city councilman in Los Angeles says if the threat against the Los Angeles Unified School District that shut down schools on Tuesday is a hoax, he wants to see the perpetrator "brought to justice."
"It has cost millions of dollars and it's outrageous," Paul Krekorian, who represents part of the San Fernando Valley, told the Los Angeles Times. "And someone needs to be held accountable and brought to justice for it." Krekorian said he has children who attend LAUSD schools, and most of the information he heard about the shutdown came from television news. The city has "a lot to learn from" the threat, he said, and "it would be better for all of us if we could figure out ways of speeding up the process of sharing information, particularly when there's an incident of such significance."
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