WHAT IS SILENT WITNESS?
1. A program to obtain information regarding criminal
activity.
2. A program which insures the information
gathered goes to the proper law enforcement agency, and nowhere else.
3.
A program which allows for ANONYMOUS REPORTING.
WHY DO WE NEED SILENT WITNESS?
1.
To encourage each member of the university community to become involved in fighting
crime on and around our campus.
2. To provide
a system insuring timely reporting of criminal activity.
3.
To protect those who get involved and make reports by maintaining their
anonymity through use of a "blind" e-mail account into which reports
are fed.
HOW DOES SILENT WITNESS WORK?
1. Through any computer with internet access, a person
can go to the Augusta State University web site, click on Public Safety and then
click on SILENT WITNESS.
2.
After reading the explanatory page on SILENT WITNESS, click on "MAKE
A REPORT".
3. The reporting form is
an fill-in-the-blank exercise, in which the person reporting can record all known
data about the criminal activity.
4. By clicking
on SUBMIT REPORT, the information goes automatically to a "blind" e-mail
site which will not reveal the identity of the sending person.