Top 10 Stories from March: Coronavirus Concerns, Clery Act Critiques
Campus Safety’s most popular March stories include how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting campuses and a former police commissioner’s criticism of the Clery Act.
Campus Safety’s most popular March stories include how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting campuses and a former police commissioner’s criticism of the Clery Act.
The Clery Act forces higher ed top brass to pay attention to campus public safety, emergency management and security issues rather than sweep them under the rug.
The previous article that criticizes the Clery Act misrepresents the purpose and function of the law’s requirements.
The intent of the law was to provide transparency, not to require that schools jump through hoops or be subject to ill-informed and very harmful conclusions.
Confusion often arises about what is needed to comply with the Clery Act and its requirements for an annual report on crime statistics. Campus Safety’s free resource shares a comprehensive look.
The Department characterized UNC’s lack of compliance as a ‘systemic failure to provide students and employees with important campus crime information and services essential to their safety and security.’
The Clery Center strives to make campus safety a universal reality by helping college administrators not only comply with Clery regulations but also understand the spirit behind them.
A damning report from the Education Department says MSU officials failed to report crimes and disclose accurate crime statistics, among other things.
Larger, quicker fines for Clery Act violations could be the new norm for colleges in the future.
The Clery Center recommends institutions of higher education take these five steps when they are revisiting or publicizing their timely warning or emergency notification policies.