Douglas County school officers get FBI training on online threats

Douglas County school resource officers are getting FBI training on how to spot online threats before a post turns into a campus disruption. The focus is on messages that spread through social media, messaging apps and gaming platforms, where a threat can move fast enough to trigger fear at a school miles away from the person who posted it.

Douglas County School District has a School Resource Officer Program, and Douglas County Government has the largest School Resource Officer team in Colorado. The district’s Partnership for Safety ties those officers to school safety staff, and Colorado School Safety Resource Center guidance makes threat assessment a team effort built to stop targeted violence before it reaches a crisis point. The guidance also calls for coordination with district legal counsel and local law enforcement.

The FBI training for school resource officers focuses on telling the difference between a real threat, a reckless joke and a message meant to stir panic. In practice, that means officers and school leaders have to decide quickly when a post requires a police investigation, when a school should go into a safety response, and when both need to happen at once.

On Jan. 14, 2026, Colorado Division of Homeland Security investigated threats at nearly a dozen schools statewide. At least 11 schools received threats by phone and email, including schools in Douglas County School District, Littleton Public Schools, Frisco, Alamosa and Buena Vista.

Douglas County High School received an AI-generated robocall suggesting a potential threat. Law enforcement responded, deployed K9 Nyx, cleared the school and found no credible threat.