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News Release
March 14, 2001
Contact:
Nancy Brown, President
540-898-6543 or 877-898-1556
PO Box 3402 Fredericksburg, VA 22402
Email: NancyBrown@ReportSomeone.com
ReportSomeone.com
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MOM FOUNDED
WEBSITE FOR TEENS TO REPORT THREATS OF VIOLENCE
It is a fact that most children in America
feel that they do not need to tell anyone when they know of someone who is
threatening to bring a gun to school. Most of these children do not take these
threats seriously. They feel that they shouldn’t tell on a friend. Some
children don’t tell an adult because they think that the adult won’t
understand. ReportSomeone.com is an online resource for teens to use when
reporting threats of violence. They can make the report from their home, where
most feel safe. They can remain anonymous and because they use the Internet
their friends do not need to know they are making the report.
Nancy Brown, a mother of 4 children, and a
grandmother of two, founded ReportSomeone.com after an incident involving
her son, his friends, and a gun. Last year Nancy’s son was in eighth grade. A
teenager in the neighborhood wanted to buy a gun and gave two boys a total of
$750. Not one child told an adult, for the same reasons that most teenagers
don’t report these types of incidents. Nancy was distraught when she found
that her son would not and did not report this incident to her. Nancy talked
with at least 10 of her son’s friends and they all agreed that they would not
tattle on anyone.
Nancy is the same as any other mother in
America. She loves her children and expects them to be safe in school. But that
is not reality and children are killed all too often in our schools. In most
school shootings there have been friends who knew that the person had been
making threats. If the teens felt safe to make these reports they would have
saved many lives.
Nancy’s son is now 15 years old and
helped contribute to the website content and design. He showed great interest in
helping her. Nancy asked him if he would use a website such as this to report
threats from teenagers and he said, "Yes, if I knew the web address".
This is why we need the public’s support
to make every parent and child in the United States aware of ReportSomeone.com.
Our children now have a resource to report these threats of violence and unless
they are aware of it, they cannot use this effective resource.
Nancy Brown is also the founder of Parents
Eyes, a non-profit nationwide teenage bumper sticker program. Her program has
helped save many teenagers lives by encouraging them to develop safe driving
habits. The toll free telephone number for that program is 888-530-Teen. She is
also the President of Alexis Mya Publishing. In May 2000 she founded
YourMilitary.com, which provides detailed community information for all military
installations nationwide. She most recently has been accepted in the 2001 issue
of The National Registry of Who’s Who.
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