How a tip travels: intake asks for nothing that identifies the reporter

This is the first of seven short articles that follow a tip through the whole life of a program: intake, dialogue, investigation, evidence, referrals, rewards, and retention. Each stage is built so a program’s promises to reporters hold by construction.

Ask for nothing that identifies the reporter

Intake asks for no name and no contact information, and the application stores no IP address, device signature, or browser fingerprint. The reporter’s IP address is not logged at submission. That claim describes the application, not the wider internet.

Guided follow-up questions are fixed in the product and written to stay low on self-identification. Before a tip is sent, the platform checks the wording for details that could point back to the reporter and flags them. Only the words and the crime category are part of that check, and nothing from it is kept.

Reporters can write in their own language. The platform does not keep a record of which language a tip arrived in.