‘Swatting’ incidents becoming more common for school districts, law enforcement officials

Law enforcement officials leave Montpelier High School in Feb. 2023, after giving the building the all-clear. Vermont police agencies responded to threats reported at multiple schools, which appeared to be hoax calls.File photo by Riley Robinson/VTDiggerThe calls arrived all the same: a garbled, AI-generated voice, speaking from the same script, warning seven Vermont schools of a bomb threat.In Burlington, Newport, Winooski and Montpelier, school buildings were cleared, classes were evacuated,