Douglas County Sheriff launches new Crime Stoppers website
Residents can now file anonymous Crime Stoppers tips online or by phone, with cash rewards still tied to the 785-843-TIPS hotline.
The sheriff’s office launched a website for Crime Stoppers of Lawrence and Douglas County, giving Douglas County residents another way to report crime anonymously. The program still centers on the 785-843-TIPS, or 785-843-8477, telephone line, but the new site gives people another route to send information to law enforcement and qualify for cash rewards for accurate tips that lead to arrests.
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office policy on Crime Stoppers, effective Sept. 2, 2024, says tips are coordinated by the Criminal Investigations Bureau lieutenant or a designee. Online tips are monitored and assigned through the secure Crime Stoppers site, while phone tips are assigned for follow-up by the on-duty supervisor. Callers are promised anonymity, and people who want a possible reward must use the TIPS hotline rather than email because anonymity cannot be guaranteed through email.
Crime Stoppers of Lawrence and Douglas County serves the Douglas County Sheriff’s Department, Lawrence Police Department, Eudora Police Department, Baldwin City Police Department and Baldwin City Fire Department. Lawrence police list the Crime Stoppers hotline on its contacts page, and Baldwin City directs residents to the same anonymous reporting system.
The organization behind the program was filed as a Kansas not-for-profit corporation on Sept. 19, 1994, and state records list it as active and in good standing with the Kansas Secretary of State.
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