Update: Crestwood Elementary Modified Lockdown Continues Through End of Day

Update: 2:40 p.m. Information from the Sumner School District

Thank you for your patience today as the Pierce County Sheriff's Department worked to prevent custodial interference resulting from a family dispute.

Our school will be in modified lockdown through the end of the day.

Students will be dismissed today at regular time. Families should pick up children using the normal end-of-day procedures.

We will notify you of any changes to school operations. 

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Update: 11:20 a.m.:

Sumner School District spokesperson Ann Cook clarified the modified lockdown does not impact the preschool, which will be dismissed at regular time.

When the lockdown is cleared, another notice will be sent out to parents, she said.

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Information from the Sumner School District at 10:21 a.m.:

Pierce County Sheriff's Department has advised Crestwood Elementary School to put in place modified lockdown procedures while they work to resolve a domestic dispute.

Students and teachers are safe and engaged in learning.

From time to time, local law enforcement agencies alert our schools to potential risks that require the school to implement a precautionary safety protocol known as a lockdown.

Lockdown and Modified Lockdown
In a lockdown, exterior and interior doors are locked. Students are told to stay away from windows and keep low. Curtains or blinds are closed. Lights are off. Only quiet talking is allowed. Students who are outside at recess or in a PE class come back into the building. Signs are posted on doors instructing anyone who tries to get inside the building to leave the school premises immediately. Staff has been trained to take the situation very seriously, with an assumption that an intruder could actually be in the building.

The modified lockdown takes similar precautions but allows more movement within the building. Students may continue to work at their desks with lights on. They may go to the restroom. No one, however, may enter or leave the building-staff, students or parents.