One-year old fraud hotline is quiet

Oconee School District over the last year took up the recommendation of its outside auditor and implemented a telephone hotline to report cases of fraud.  It takes millions and millions of dollars to run a school district the size of Oconee’s, and there could be opportunity for someone to commit an act of fraud.  The fraud hotline number is 864/718-5798.  However, the number gets few calls.  According to Gloria Moore, district finance officer, “We have not had any reports of fraud or suspicion of fraud.  We have had questions in the fraud email that needed to be directed to other areas in the district office.”  Besides the phone line, another way to confidentially report fraud is to the email address:  [email protected]