The Averted School Violence technology platform ensures reports cannot be traced back to the report submitter through his or her computer’s IP Address. Furthermore, a panel of school violence and law enforcement subject matter experts reviews each submitted report and permanently deletes identifying information of any involved person in the incident. For those incident reports that were created by Safe and Sound Schools staff using open source information, we do list the open source documents or links from which we obtained the information. While we still refrain from using identifying information of involved persons, some of those open source documents or links contain identifying information that has since been released after the averted attack and /or court proceedings.
If there is a concern that an agency is tracking this information, we recommend that incidents be reported from a personal laptop/personal desktop system.