Santa Barbara Junior High was put under lockdown on Thursday, May 12, around 2 p.m., after an altercation between two students escalated to a parent of one of the students entering the campus and approaching the other student.
The Santa Barbara Police Department (SBPD) responded to the notification of the lockdown. The initial report made to SBPD stated that following an altercation between two students, on the same day, a parent of one of the students had approached and threatened the other student. The names of both students have been withheld for privacy reasons.
Parents are required to check in before entering a campus, and according to the district’s chief of communications Nick Masuda, “the parent was able to approach the student, as they did not follow check-in protocols.”