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Denver, Colorado - Colorado AG Weiser has announced updates on the Safe2Tell program's influence on student safety in Colorado schools in a recent report, with the first semester of the 2023-2024 school year witnessing a 40% increase in report submissions compared to the same period last year.

Key Points

• Safe2Tell serves as a violence intervention and prevention platform, allowing students to report threats anonymously. It acts as an information pathway to law enforcement and school officials but is not an emergency response or mental health service.
• There were 12,438 Safe2Tell report submissions in the first semester of the 2023-2024 school year, an increase from the 8,892 reports during the same period in the 2022-2023 school year.
• December 2023 alone saw 2,394 reports, despite an expected 20% decrease due to the holiday break. The leading categories of these reports were suicide (269 reports), bullying (241 reports), and school complaints (232 reports).
• In the 2023-2024 school year, false reports constituted 3.7% of all submissions, defined as reports containing untrue information intended to harm, injure, or bully another person.
• Notable incidents reported last month included a student researching the Columbine tragedy with intentions to commit a school shooting and peers making racial slurs and discussing planned school attacks.
• In response to the report about the student researching the Columbine tragedy, school teams conducted a threat assessment, and the student was placed in a facility on a hold. Safety plans were initiated upon the student's return.
• Another report led to the investigation of students making racial slurs and discussing school attacks. The involved students admitted to the behavior, and disciplinary actions, including counseling, were taken.
• Reports to Safe2Tell can be made via phone at 1-877-542-7233, online at Safe2Tell.org, by texting S2TCO to 738477, or through the Safe2Tell mobile app.