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.
Hayley Hanson and Ben Irwin from Husch Blackwell will go in-depth regarding compliance obligations and discuss their recent study of 2017 Clery enforcement measures.
What role does the Clery Act play in field trips, study abroad programs and sports tournaments?
An investigation was launched after complaints that the school violated the Clery Act by not providing sexual assault prevention and response procedures.
Since colleges first published annual security reports 25 years ago, the Clery Act has been the driving force to protect victims and make campuses safer.
The Department of Education requires schools to keep these Clery Act documents for seven years.
The figure shows schools still have a long way to go to encourage sexual assault victims to come forward.
The historic penalty is related to the investigation into convicted serial child abuser Jerry Sandusky.
Here are some action plans for schools dissecting the changes in the new version of the Handbook for Campus Safety and Security Reporting.