COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Law enforcement wants to crack down on acts that have sent South Carolina school campuses into emergency mode and traumatized students and staff.

Now they are asking state lawmakers for help to do it.

At a hearing on campus safety earlier this week at the State House, college and university police chiefs from around South Carolina urged the General Assembly to enact stronger laws to curb hoax calls about school emergencies, known as “swatting.”

“We don’t have the luxury of saying, ‘That didn’t happen. That’s a false call.’ We have to respond each and every time like it has happened, and that pulls resources from all across the county, the city to respond to those incidents,” Clemson Associate Vice President of Public Safety Kimberly Spears-McNatt told members of a

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