Company Offers Bundled Hotline Solution for Preventing School Fraud and School Violence

Early detection is the key to prevention, and prevention can save school districts time and money. Report it helps school administrators to be proactive to potential risks, not reactive, thus dealing with issues before they escalate into major problems.

West Sayville, New York (PRWEB) September 19, 2006 -- Report it, a leading provider of independent third-party anonymous hotline services, today announces its new bundled option for school safety and fraud waste and abuse hotline service for k-12 school districts.

The Report it student hotline is currently in use in schools across the United States.

Report it has been the key component for assisting school administrators to detect potential risks in their schools. Report it has helped apprehend a potential school bomber, identified a drug pushing school security guard, provided a lead in a stabbing that resulted in an arrest, helped recover stolen items, helped discover weapons on school grounds, potentially prevented numerous suicides as attested to by school administrators, and the list goes on and on.

Over the last year, hundreds of school districts have discovered, much too late, the misappropriation of public funds, fraud and embezzlement by trusted employees. These scandals have shaken the confidence of the tax paying public and have caused schools to cut many services and school budgets to be defeated. In every one of these cases, the students have suffered.

It has also been learned that honest school district employees that have either suspected or had knowledge of wrongdoing and were reluctant to communicate out of fear of retribution. Report it helps bridge the gap between communicating and not communicating by providing a confidential, anonymous 24/7 toll free and web based hotline. Our motto is, 'If you see it, suspect it, or know it…Report it.' This simple message sets the tone from top down - that fraud waste and abuse will not be tolerated. It also solicits the help of all; teachers, students, parents, community members and district employees, making prevention everyone’s responsibility.

Bottom line - Early detection is the key to prevention, and prevention can save school districts time and money. Report it helps school administrators to be proactive to potential risks, not reactive, thus dealing with issues before they escalate into major problems.

"Report it was initially conceived in the wake of the unprecedented violence at Columbine High School,” said Report it founder Anthony Lavalle, “But its utility has proven to be far greater. The accounting scandals at Enron and Tyco, as well as in many high-profile school districts, and the ensuing Sarbanes-Oxley Act have made Report it ever more relevant. It makes perfect sense for k-12 schools district to have both school safety and fraud waste and abuse hotlines,” says Lavalle.

In both the education and corporate environments, people may be reluctant to report serious problems internally. Report it assures anonymity and affords the opportunity for individuals to report candidly about perceived problems via a safe, secure independent third-party.

About Report it

Established in 1999, Report it® provides anonymous hotline services via the Internet and telephone for public companies (NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX), privately held companies, non-profit organizations, hospitals, Colleges and Universities, public and private schools.

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