Most people know it simply as the Jeanne Clery Act, but it has a much longer technical name that is outdated.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 …
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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 …
Congress Appropriates $1 Million for Campus Sexual Assault Climate Surveys
Federal Agencies Will Create Online Portal for Survey to be Administered by Colleges & Universities Washington, DC – Late last year Congress, as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, appropriated $1 million dollars “for surveys on the campus sexual assault 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 …
Families, advocates walk Capitol Hill to advance hazing prevention legislation
Washington, D.C. – Parents who lost children to hazing, as well as the leaders of anti-hazing advocacy groups met with members of Congress on both sides of the aisle last week to promote legislation that seeks to prevent hazing in 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 …
Campus Climate Surveys Due In 2024 Will Significantly Expand On Clery Act Sexual Violence Data
Under new federal legislation, enacted on March 15, 2022 as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, campus climate survey data for individual college and university campuses is due to be available by 2024. These campus climate surveys will collect Read More …