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More than 1,100 students at Santa Cruz High School plus more at district schools around the city were locked down...

Santa Cruz City School District Superintendent Kris Munro said school and district administrators and law enforcement officials would “present a summary of facts and a timeline of events following the anonymous tip ‘prank’ this morning on our campus” during a Zoom meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday; here’s the link to join.

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