PARENTS IRATE OVER LAUSD LOCKDOWNS: Police and school officials trade blame over the lack of services for students during search for a suspect in the Woodland Hills area.
BY HOWARD BLUME AND ANDREW BLANKSTEIN, LOS ANGELES TIMES | HTTP://LAT.MS/FKNUZI
Police officers keep an eye on things outside El Camino Real High School as students arrive for class a day after the Woodland Hills campus was locked down when a school police officer was shot nearby. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times / January 20, 2011)
January 21, 2011 - Thousands of students were kept in classrooms without food, water or access to restrooms longer than necessary, the Los Angeles school district's police chief acknowledged, as officials coped with complaints from parents frustrated once more with the district's handling of an emergency situation.
Students from nine San Fernando Valley schools were in lockdown for as long as five hours as officers combed campuses and neighborhoods for