John Venuti
Chief of Police
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Va.
Notable Achievements:
- 96% of student, faculty and staff respondents to department’s “perception of safety” survey say they feel safe or very safe on campus.
- Achieved IACLEA accreditation
- Despite an austere budget, secured funding and a building location for the department’s new headquarters between the academic and medical campuses.
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Todd Warren
Director of Public Safety
Spring Hill College
Mobile, Ala.
Notable Achievements:
- Persuaded Alabama state legislators to pass a law allowing his institution to have its own police force.
- Replaced outsourced security services with an in-house campus police department.
- Convinced campus stakeholders of the importance of a multidisciplinary, specially trained response team for sexual assault reports that was available 24/7 to reduce victim investigatory trauma and increase visibility of intervention to encourage reporting.
Michael Webster
Director of Campus Safety
McDaniel College
Westminster, Md.
Notable Achievements:
- Ensured IACLEA participation in U.S. Department of Education rulemaking and the subsequent drafting of an operational Handbook for Clery Compliance.
- Represented IACLEA with the National Law Enforcement Partnership to Prevent Gun Violence to meet and advise national policymakers.
- Developed a process on his campus where one officer takes a report from a victim and includes questions that would be useful to others from student services to campus public safety. Doing so prevents victims from having to tell their version of an incident multiple times, possibly re-traumatizing them.
Charlie Wolverton
Director of Safety and Security
Southeast Georgia Health System
Brunswick, Ga.
Notable Achievements:
- Gained authorized access to the Georgia Crime Information Center and NCIC to perform in-house pre-employment background checks on prospective employees and vendors.
- Brought all “key control” issues in house when prior to this, locksmiths at a high hourly rate handled this task and key control was virtually non-existent.
- Optimized SGHS’ current access control system and revised the campus access control policies, resulting in fewer thefts and reduced security costs.
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