The Massachusetts Gaming Commission (MGC) has launched a new tip program designed to solicit public participation in support of ensuring integrity and compliance of laws within the state’s new expanded gaming industry.
“In keeping with MGC’s overarching approach to gaming regulation, public participation in MGC’s efforts is vital” said Karen Wells, director of the Massachusetts Investigation and Enforcement Bureau (IEB), the gaming commission’s enforcement arm. “A tip program provides the public with an organized and specific method to directly contact the IEB with any potential concerns or personal knowledge of unethical or noncompliant gaming activity.”
The IEB developed what it has dubbed the “Fair Deal” tip program to allow tipsters to provide information via telephone, online report and/or an email. Submitted tips will be sent directly to a member of the IEB, who will then follow up on the information provided. This coordinated effort provides tipsters with the opportunity to select a chosen method of outreach (phone, online, email). The tip program will also offer tipsters with the option of confidentiality and anonymity.
To educate the public and generate increased awareness of this program, MGC will execute a comprehensive communications campaign through a combination of marketing, traditional media outreach, and by maximizing the use of the newest technologies available including social media platforms and other methods of new media.
