Schuette reminds students to continue to use OK2SAY

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette reminds Michigan students about the OK2SAY program. OK2SAY is the student safety program that enables students to confidentially report anything that they feel threatens their safety or the safety of others. Tips can be submitted using email, mobile app, telephone, text message, or the OK2SAY website. In the majority of violent school incidents, someone knew about the threat before it was carried out, but they failed to report it. Often, students choose to keep quiet because they fear retaliation, rejection, or stigmatization by their peers. The result is a culture of silence in which students suffer harm that could have been prevented if someone chose to speak out. OK2SAY empowers students to break the code of silence. In April, OK2SAY received 601 tips, which is equal to the amount of tips received in the first four months of the OK2SAY program. Total tips since the program launched have now reached 13,000 and counting. Tips are submitted across 30 categories, with most tips reporting suicide threats, bullying, assault, self-harm, and drugs. Students, teachers, parents, school officials, friends and neighbors can all submit tips, if they are aware of a threat. Tips can be submitted though the following ways: call 8-555-OK2SAY (855-565-2729); text 652729 (OK2SAY); email OK2SAY@mi.gov; online OK2SAY.com; or mobile app on Google Play or iTunes. Published: Tue, May 29, 2018