Clery Act

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  • Jeanne Clery

    Jeanne Clery was raped and murdered in her dorm at Lehigh University. Clery's parents sued the university, arguing that their daughter would have never attended the school if she knew the crime record (Nelson, 2008).

  • Student Right-to-Know & Campus Security Act; Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990

    The Student Right-to-Know & Campus Security Act, or the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990 is a federal law requiring colleges and universities participating in federal financial aid programs to maintain and disclose campus crime statistics and security information.
    This was signed into federal law as an amendment to the Higher Education Act of 1965 (McCallion, 2014).

  • Higher Education Technical Amendments of 1991

    Times periods of reporting crime changed from calendar year to an academic year.

  • Higher Education Amendments of 1992

    The act is amended to require institutions to develop and implement policies and procedures to protect the rights of sexual assault survivors (McCallion, 2014).

  • Higher Education Amendments of 1998

    Law is renamed the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, or the Clery Act. The amendment increased the number of categories of crimes that a required to be included in reports, expanded geographic locations, and required that institutions with police and security maintain a public log (McCallion, 2014). The amendment also required that institutions report their crime data to Department of Education, disclose data, and provide upon request.

  • Victims of Trafficking and Violence Prevention Act

    This act amended the Clery Act, requiring institutions to provide information on the location of the state's public sex offender registry.
    The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) was also amended to allow sex offender information to be disclosed without violating privacy laws (McCallion, 2014).

  • Higher Education Opportunity Act

    The act requires institutions to develop and distribute immediate campus emergency response and evacuation procedures, report hate crimes, and also established safeguards for whistleblowers.

  • Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013

    Officials handling disciplinary proceedings would be required to receive annual trainings, and campus crime reports would be expanded to include domestic/dating violence and stalking.
    Institutions also are required to have defined policies in place for the handling of domestic/dating violence and stalking (McCallion, 2014).

  • References

    McCallion, G. (2014). History of the Clery Act: Fact Sheet. Congressional Research Service. Retrieved from https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc491195/m1/1/high_res_d/R43759_2014Oct20.pdf Nelson, V. (2008). Crusader for increased campus security after daughter's murder. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved from http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jan/12/local/me-clery12

  • Impact on Higher Education

    Institutions are required to give a "timely" alert to their campuses when an incident occurs. One example of this is the text and email alerts that are sent out when a crime or incident has occurred on campus. This allows students to be aware of their surroundings and knowledgable of any threats that may appear while on or off campus.

  • The Future of the Clery Act

    Moving forward, institutions should provide more trainings to more faculty and staff, to include student workers. These trainings should include when and how to report crimes and incidents on campus in the most efficient manner.