You’d think the 2024 Title IX Rule, due to take effect August 1, 2024, would use the most modern, inclusive definition of sexual assault available. You’d be wrong. You’d think it would be automatically compatible with the definition colleges and Read More …
Author: S. Daniel Carter
Join SAFE Campuses in Creating a New Way to “Clery”
Using the Jeanne Clery Act to Create a Comprehensive Campus Safety Framework From time-to-time we see the Clery Act criticized as a bureaucratic compliance obligation rather than something that actually makes college and university campuses safer. Our view at SAFE Read More …
OCR: Institutions Subject to Both Title IX & Clery Must Use Clery’s VAWA Definitions
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today in correspondence to SAFE Campuses, LLC clarified that institutions of higher education may comply with their Title IX obligations by using the same definitions of “VAWA offenses” in disciplinary Read More …
The “Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act” Would Better Reflect Scope of Landmark Law Today
Most people know it simply as the Jeanne Clery Act, but it has a much longer technical name that is outdated. Renaming it the “Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act” would better reflect this comprehensive law & improve campus safety. Many Read More …
32 NCSI Can Help Make Your Campus Safer
Virginia Tech Victims Families Joined With Higher Education Experts to Create Campus Safety Self-Assessment In my campus safety advocacy and consulting with institutions of higher education over the last three decades the most common key to success I’ve seen is Read More …
Understanding the Clery Act’s Voluntary, Confidential Reporting Option
Over the last few decades, I’ve reviewed thousands of Clery Act Annual Security Reports, and perhaps no provision is more misunderstood than “voluntary, confidential” crime reporting. The most important things to know about it are that institutions aren’t required to Read More …
Clery Act Requires Transparent Appeals in Sexual Misconduct Cases
Education Department Holds Both Complainant & Respondent Must be Allowed to Respond if the Other Appeals The U.S. Department of Education last year found a Maryland university in violation of the Clery Act for failing to allow a complainant in Read More …
How Simplifying Annual Clery Act Reports Can Make Our Campuses Safer
Thirty years ago today, September 1, 1992, the first Jeanne Clery Act annual security reports were due ushering in a new era of transparency in college and university campus safety. Prior to this the campus crime statistics, and public information Read More …
The Clery Act Requires Colleges & Universities to Effectively Respond to Gender Based Violence Complaints
The VAWA Requirements Operate as a Companion to Title IX While best known for crime statistics and timely warnings the Clery Act also serves as a companion to the sex discrimination civil-rights law Title IX. Clery requires colleges and universities Read More …
The U.S. Dept. of Education Has Increased Clery Act Fines to $62,689
On April 20, 2022 the U.S. Department of Education increased fines for violating the Jeanne Clery Act from $59,017 to $62,689. Pursuant to the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015 the Department is required to adjust Read More …