Hennepin County shelter-in-place warning a mistake, officials say
by FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul— Those who saw a shelter-in-place warning on their TV screens Monday evening saw the message by mistake, Hennepin County officials say.According to the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, the alert was only supposed to be sent out to a one-block radius in Robbinsdale, but an error was made at the Hennepin County dispatch, causing the message to be seen by many more.Around 6:45 p.m., officers from the Robbinsdale Police Department responded to the 3600 block of West Broadway on a report of a...
5 EYEWITNESS NEWS—Robbinsdale shelter-in-place alert went out to all of Hennepin County by accident, police say. A shelter-in-place alert related to police activity in Robbinsdale went out to much more people than was intended Monday, police say.
MPR News—Shelter-in-place alert for Robbinsdale neighborhood inadvertently sent to all of Hennepin County. Authorities issued a shelter-in-place alert on Monday evening for a small part of Robbinsdale — which was inadvertently broadcast to all of Hennepin County.
kare11.com—Robbinsdale 'shelter-in-place' message mistakenly sent across Hennepin County. Robbinsdale Police have not released any information about the incident, including the location of the intended "shelter-in-place" message.