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Elizabeth Urban

State Ordered to Pay Millions to Children at Psychiatric Hospital for Traumatizing Them with Unannounced Active Shooter Drill

The state of Michigan has been ordered to pay $13 million after patients, staff, police, dispatch and paramedics were not notified that an active shooter alert at a children's hospital was just a drill. (Credit: Pexels/Ekaterina Bolovtsova)

The state of Michigan has been ordered to pay $13 million to patients and staff at a children's psychiatric hospital after performing an unannounced active shooter drill.

The majority of employees at the Hawthorn Center in suburban Detroit were not notified about the drill on Dec. 21, 2022, leading patients and staff to believe the call made over the speaker system that there were two armed men in the building, as reported by the Detroit News.

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