Statewide tip line sees spike in calls over school safety concerns

COLUMBUS - There’s a phone number every parent needs to know when it comes to calling in something – or someone - suspicious at their child’s school:844-SAFER-OH.“We rolled it out in July 2014, and since then, about 2400 schools are partnered in the tip line,” says Jason Bowman, an infrastructure protection manager at Ohio Homeland Security.The Ohio Department of Education and the Ohio Department of Public Safety launched the SaferOH tip line that will accept both c