Saturday night, a threat was made through Snapchat to shoot up Queensbury High School.

State police with the Albany FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested a 15-year-old from Clifton Park. He’s charged with making a terroristic threat, criminal impersonation, and making a threat of mass harm.

Authorities say he does not go to Queensbury and was using someone else’s social media account.

Last week, Hoosick Falls got a phone threat– a swatting call.

The football game had to be moved. Sheriff’s investigators traced the call and made an arrest.

“As far as the swattings and everything else, they get caught. But the penalties aren’t stiff enough,” said Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple.

Recently, Bethlehem had six calls threatening gun violence, also believed to be swatting, disrupting students’ lives just as they’re getting used to the school year.

“Listen I understand everybody goes well this is the world we live in. It doesn’t have to be. We can hold these people accountable,” said the sheriff.

Apple said information-sharing needs to improve, and he referenced a student with a “kill list” at Guilderland.

“The individual showed up unexpectedly at school and was in the same classroom as another child that was on the list,” said Apple. “That’s an issue, right? And nobody had answers. And then the answers that were coming out were well we can’t share that information.”

Apple says there need to be stiffer penalties, and when schools cite laws to protect an arrested student, that leaves the rest of the community in the dark and that has to change.

“When Kenneth White was murdered, CPS couldn’t share information with us. What did we do? We lobbied with our senators and our assemblymembers and we got those laws changed,” said Sheriff Apple. “So my ask is tell us what needs to happen to be able to share this information so parents can send their children to school without having to worry all day and children can go to school without having to look over their shoulder all day, like oh my God is that person here today or are these threats real or what’s going on.”

“We have to do a better job of sharing information with parents and letting them know that a child was held accountable and these are the actions that are taken. Is it going to be a little bit embarrassing for that child? Well, probably, but you know what? You wanted to put your big boy pants on when you made the threats, well, you know what, the rooster has come home to roost.”