The FBI wants to remind everyone that making a threat against a school is a crime, whether you’re a juvenile or an adult. During the 2025-2026 school year, The FBI branch in Houston alone received 42 tips related to school threats, and they have already investigated three this school year. Three underage teenagers in the Pasadena Independent School District (near Houston) were charged with third-degree state felony offenses of a terroristic threat by planning a mass shooting at a high school. Threatening to commit acts of violence against a school is a crime, and the FBI will investigate every threat. To help identify and investigate the threats and who’s behind them, they ask for the help of students, school staff, and anyone who comes across them. If you see someone make a threat online, on social media, or text, DO NOT share it. Doing so will only incite fear and create panic. Instead, immediately notify school police or local law enforcement. And you should report threats against any school…not just your own. Hoax threats are also a problem for law enforcement. They use more resources to investigate a threat which drains law enforcement resources and diverts them from responding to an actual crisis. Hoax threats can shut down school campuses, cause undue stress and fear amongst the public, and cost taxpayers a lot of money…and ruin the future of those making the hoax threats as they’ll have a criminal record.