--- description: A SWAT team was dispatched to the family home of Parkland school shooting survivor and gun control activist David Hogg Tuesday morning. title: Parkland Survivor David Hogg's Family Home Was 'Swatted' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2345e2d1b57613d6/69892e9c22fb8524cee25702/time-100-most-influential-gala-2018-red-carpet-037.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Parkland Survivor David Hogg's Family Home Was 'Swatted'  by [Alana Abramson](/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 5, 2018 3:33 PM CUT  Parkland Activist David Hogg at the Time 100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 24, 2018 in New York City. Parkland Activist David Hogg at the Time 100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 24, 2018 in New York City.Landon Nordeman for TIME  by [Alana Abramson](/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 5, 2018 3:33 PM CUT A SWAT team was dispatched to a home that local media reports matches the address of Parkland school shooting survivor and gun control activist [David Hogg’s](http://time.com/5248853/parkland-survivor-david-hogg-at-time-100/ "undefined") family Tuesday morning. The team arrived at the home after authorities received a report of a barricaded subject inside the house, an official with the Broward County Sherff’s Office told TIME. The report turned out to be baseless, the official said, but the SWAT team cleared out the home as a precautionary measure. Local media helicopters were over the home during the incident. Hogg was not home at the time, as he is in Washington, D.C. to accept the [Robert F. Kennedy human rights award.](https://rfkhumanrights.org/news/2018-human-rights-award-winners-announced "undefined") The incident appears to be [an example of “swatting,”](http://time.com/5082806/what-is-swatting-tyler-barriss-troy-livingston/ "undefined") in which a false report of an emergency is made with the intention of getting a SWAT team dispatched to a location where no such emergency exists. Swatting incidents, which can result in tense and dangerous standoffs between police and confused residents, have led to [at least one death,](http://time.com/5082806/what-is-swatting-tyler-barriss-troy-livingston/ "undefined") leading some to call for laws that would explicitly ban the practice. The incident came just two days after Hogg graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the site of a [February massacre](http://time.com/5223651/ted-nugent-parkland-students/ "undefined") during which 17 people were killed. Representatives from March for Our Lives, the movement Hogg helped spearhead after the shooting, did not immediately respond to TIME’s request for comment. 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