Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act
The Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act (the Clery Act) is a federal consumer protection law that aims to provide transparency around campus crime policy and statistics.
The Clery Act requires colleges and universities to report campus crime data, support victims of violence, and publicly outline the policies and procedures they have put into place to improve campus safety.
Colleges and universities that receive federal funding must disseminate a public security report, known as an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (ASR), every October 1st. The ASR must include statistics on campus crime for the preceding 3 calendar years, plus details about efforts to improve campus safety. ASRs must also include policy statements regarding, but not limited to, crime reporting, campus facility security and access, law enforcement authority, incidence of alcohol and drug use, and the prevention of and response to sexual assaults, domestic or dating violence, and stalking.
Clery Act Requirements
- Collect, classify, and count Clery Act crime reports and statistics
- Issue campus alerts - timely warnings and emergency notifications
- Timely warnings alert the campus community of Clery Act Crimes that pose a serious or continuing threat to the campus community.
- Emergency notifications inform the campus community upon confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation occurring on the campus that involves an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees.
- Publish an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (ASR) containing Clery Act crime
statistics and safety and security related policy statements and inform all current
and prospective students and employees of its availability.
- Disclose policy and procedures for institutional disciplinary action in cases of dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the Annual Security Report.
- Disclose fire safety information related to on-campus student housing facilities, which includes a fire log that is open to public inspection, publish an annual fire safety report containing policy statements as well as fire statistics associated with each on-campus housing facility.
- Disclose missing student notification procedures that pertain to students residing in on-campus student housing
- Submit Clery Act crime statistics (and fire statistics related to on-campus student housing facilities) to the U.S. Department of Education each fall through web-based data collection.
- Maintain a daily crime log of reported criminal incidents that is open to public inspections.
- Provide educational programs and campaigns to promote the awareness of dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking and hazing.
Resources
- The U.S. Department of Education created The Handbook for Campus Safety and Security Reporting Clery Act Appendix for FSA Handbook as a reference guide for higher education institutions to follow in meeting the campus safety and security requirements of the amended Higher Education Act of 1965.
- For more information on how the Clery Act is helping to make campus communities safer, please visit the Clery Center.
- For Emergencies, Call 911
- Clery Crime Classifications
- Clery Geography
- Clery Map