MILFORD, Ohio — Miami Township police responded to Milford High School on Thursday after receiving an alert of an active threat on campus, before determining within a short time that the alarm had been set off by accident and that students and staff were never in danger.
The Miami Township Police Department said in a social media post that officers were on the scene at the high school investigating the alert. The department said the active-threat notification had been accidentally triggered by an employee and that there was no actual threat at the school.
Milford Senior High School sits within Miami Township and is part of Milford Exempted Village Schools, which enrolled more than 1,800 students in grades nine through 12 as of the most recent federal education data. The Miami Township Police Department, headquartered at 5900 McPicken Drive under Chief Robert Hirsch, is the primary law enforcement agency covering the roughly 44,000-resident township, which includes the high school campus.
The department did not say how the alert was generated or what prompted the employee’s action. Police said the matter was resolved and that there was no ongoing danger to the campus.
The information contained in this story was obtained from the Miami Township Police Department.