WDIV is supposed to cover the news.
This week it made the news.
A WDIV television photographer caused the Gretchko Elementary West Bloomfield elementary school to go on lockdown Monday after he checked all the exterior doors of the building to see if they were locked, West Bloomfield Patch reported. The photographer was testing security in wake of the Connecticut shootings.
Superintendent Gerald Hill said at Monday's School Board meeting that school Principal Sally Drummond called police about 11:30 a.m. after teachers notified her that someone was trying to enter the school.
"The doors were all locked and the person wasn't able to get in," Hill said, according Patch.
Hill said the principal saw the photographer in the parking lot.
"The person in the parking lot shook her hand, congratulations, you have a very secure school," Hill said. "He didn't have a camera or any identification, but he told her he was a reporter from Channel 4 news doing a story."
Hill asked Drummond to file a police report, Patch reported, and that the district later learned that the photographer was testing school security as part of the station's larger project.
Hill said, according to Patch:
"With the heightened sense of concern after what happened in Connecticut, parents will want to know: is there someone out there that's trying to be a copycat? That was my concern. I think it was poor judgment. A story? Fine, but go to the doors and see if they're unlocked, then identify who you are. That kind of thing was inappropriate, in my opinion."
Hill said the station news director apologized, Patch reported.
