How anonymous is calling Social Services anonymously?
I cannot vouch for any state but my own, but when I was doing an internship at Department of Children Services, it was completely anonymous. It was not mandatory that you give an information about yourself. Yes, it was preferred that you left some way to contact you in case other questions arose, but it was not mandatory. As for only the cases that people gave their names get pushed though, that is a lie. That is not true in ANY state. If a call comes, rather they give personal info or not, has to be investigated. Unfortunately, due to the fact that there are so many abuse cases, they have to be prioritized. First, sexual, then physical, finally verbal. However, most verbal abuse cases get dropped because it is so hard to prove. Once they are prioritized into those categorizes, it is done by date of call, but as I said there are so many cases that not all cases get looked at.
