Threats to Colorado schools and viral misinformation circulating on social media in September fueled a 162% increase in Safe2Tell reports from the prior month, according to the state attorney general. Students filed a record-breaking 4,729 reports about safety concerns to Safe2Tell in September, beating the previous mark set in February by 47%, according to a news release from the Colorado Attorney General’s Office. Safe2Tell allows students and other community members to anonymously report issues to school officials and law enforcement. The surge of school threats also drove an unprecedented increase from one year to the next, with Safe2Tell reports in Colorado jumping 74% from September 2023 to September 2024, state officials said. “We typically see an uptick in reporting after a tragedy like the one in Georgia, as students become more vigilant,” Safe2Tell Director Stacey Jenkins said, referring to the mass shooting at Apalachee High School last month. The most common September issues reported this year — with hundreds of submissions in each category — were concerns of suicide, bullying, school safety involving staff, threats, and planned school attacks, state officials said in the news release. There was also a record number of duplicate reports that originated from a small number of social media posts threatening schools, officials said. “These posts were often shared, altered and misinterpreted, leading people to believe that the threats applied to different schools across the state and country,” state officials said in the news release.

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