diff --git a/app/models/report.rb b/app/models/report.rb
index da763b1..2f1eb24 100755
--- a/app/models/report.rb
+++ b/app/models/report.rb
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ class Report < ApplicationRecord
   validates :validate_sushi, sushi: {presence: true}
   attr_readonly :created_by, :month, :year, :client_id
 
-  serialize :exceptions, Array
+  # serialize :exceptions, Array
   before_create :set_id
   before_validation :set_uid, on: :create
   after_save :push_report
diff --git a/app/serializers/report_serializer.rb b/app/serializers/report_serializer.rb
index 8a22fc9..7c515a1 100644
--- a/app/serializers/report_serializer.rb
+++ b/app/serializers/report_serializer.rb
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ def report_header
       :created => object.created,
       :reporting_period => object.reporting_period, 
       :report_filters=> object.report_filters, 
-      :report_attributes => object.report_attributes
+      :report_attributes => object.report_attributes,
+      :exceptions => object.exceptions, 
     }
   end
 end
diff --git a/db/migrate/20181017150207_change_exceptions_to_be_json_in_reports.rb b/db/migrate/20181017150207_change_exceptions_to_be_json_in_reports.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2380008
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/migrate/20181017150207_change_exceptions_to_be_json_in_reports.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+class ChangeExceptionsToBeJsonInReports < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.1]
+  def change
+    change_column :reports, :exceptions, :json
+  end
+end
diff --git a/db/schema.rb b/db/schema.rb
index ca08d9f..876018e 100644
--- a/db/schema.rb
+++ b/db/schema.rb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 #
 # It's strongly recommended that you check this file into your version control system.
 
-ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20180522095206) do
+ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20181017150207) do
 
   create_table "error_models", id: false, force: :cascade, options: "ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4" do |t|
     t.integer "code"
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
     t.json "report_filters"
     t.json "report_attributes"
     t.json "report_datasets"
-    t.string "exceptions"
+    t.json "exceptions"
     t.datetime "created_at", null: false
     t.datetime "updated_at", null: false
     t.string "year"