Brockton has a tip line that is text enabled to give students a greater since of anonymity. Officials figure if they get information sooner they are able to take more proactive action and maybe even prevent some bullying even before it develops.
he text line can yield even greater dividends because people can report other bad behavior monitored on Facebook, You-tube, and other social media. Incidents of vandalism can be more easily reported as well.
Learning about this program begs the question, :Why aren't we doing something like this?". We live in a new world and technology can be our friend. This makes sense to me because it could get many more people involved in the solution instead of spending lots of money identifying the problem. A problem that we already knew about.
Anyone with a cell phone can send an anonymous tip to the Lynn Police Department by texting the word tiplynn and the tip information to tip411 or 847411. Anonymous web tips can also be submitted right from the Police Department’s website at www.lynnpolice.org and clicking the submit a tip icon at the bottom of the tip411 web page.
ReplyDeleteTip411 is 100% anonymous: CitizenObserver’s technology removes all identifying information before the Police Department receives the tip so there’s no way to identify the sender.
This is good info to know. It should be promoted better in the school. After all we could bring thousands of more eyes looking at the problem.
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