A grant from the Entertainment Software Association Foundation has enabled North Carolina’s Cumberland County to enable a free tip line for students to anonymously report on pending crimes in their schools.
The Speak Up Cumberland County lets students, or parents, text or call 1-866-SPEAKUP in order to bring suspicious activities or those plotting crimes to light. While the ESA Foundation’s grant was locked in a while ago, the recent occurrence of a seven-year old bringing a gun to school in the region accented the need for such a plan.
State Representative Rick Glazier talked to the FayObserver about the importance of the program:
The biggest threat to schools isn't from someone coming from outside in. It's from someone boiling over inside.
The ESA Foundation’s contribution to the program was pegged at $200,000 over two years by the article. The funds will be used by the Speak Up’s creator, PAX, to promote the program in local media and to print materials and education kits. The ESA Foundation also supported the Speak Up program in 2006 and 2007.
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Re: ESA Foundation Grant Kick Starts Tip Line
I thought this was a piracy tipline before I read the article.
Hats off to the ESA.
Re: ESA Foundation Grant Kick Starts Tip Line
I bet a certain someone would claim this was an "admission of guilt".
Re: ESA Foundation Grant Kick Starts Tip Line
In that case, if he donates to a Child abuse charity, he is the cause of Child abuse, after all, it must be an 'admission of guilt' ;)
Re: ESA Foundation Grant Kick Starts Tip Line
He'd probably ring it himself just before he emails his moronic crap of the day to GP, claiming that not putting him on the front page is suppression of constitutional rights. That or because GP is a big old meanie scared of random unsubstantiated wild swing accusations with less validity than a hookers assurance that yours is the biggest she's ever had...
Re: ESA Foundation Grant Kick Starts Tip Line
and the ESA can reply "at least we contributed to the tip line, unlike you"
岩「…Where do masochists go when they die?」
Re: ESA Foundation Grant Kick Starts Tip Line
Maybe they can bring up when he pussed out of contributing to chairity when his demands were met.
Re: ESA Foundation Grant Kick Starts Tip Line
Unless he can prove it, and actually SHOW us the studies, it wouldn't matter either way.
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Re: ESA Foundation Grant Kick Starts Tip Line
And not just quote the parts he likes, for a change.