{"id":6110,"date":"2023-07-18T15:34:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T15:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/education-expert.com\/NewEE\/?p=6110"},"modified":"2024-03-13T00:13:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T00:13:42","slug":"the-clery-act-standards-managing-college-campus-safety-and-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/education-expert.com\/NewEE\/the-clery-act-standards-managing-college-campus-safety-and-security\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clery Act Standards: Managing College Campus Safety and Security\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

All colleges and universities owe some level of care and have a duty to keep students reasonably safe while attending school and residing on campus. Colleges and universities have to plan and take proactive initiatives to minimize the incidence of violent crimes and student injury and harm resulting from college campus safety and security-related issues. This includes properly reporting and being fully <\/span>transparent about the types of crimes that occur on campus, tracking who is being impacted, and taking action reasonably calculated to address and minimize the likelihood of incidents that can affect the safety and well-being of students on campus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Providing university and college campus safety and security is an inherently difficult task because of the age of the students, campus size and location, the availability of drugs and alcohol, and the existence of multiple buildings on and off campuses, including residential facilities. University administration, public safety directors, and campus police chiefs have a duty to be diligent in their attempts to mitigate risks in areas where incidents tend to occur with regularity and to comply with legal obligations related to college campus safety and security. This includes keeping accurate crime statistics, conducting timely reporting, producing and disseminating annual reports (as required by the <\/span>Clery Act of 1990<\/a><\/strong>), and promoting awareness and providing training to university employees and students.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

College Campus Safety and Security: Protection of Students from Violent Crimes<\/b><\/h2>\n

The Clery Act has two primary goals: to ensure that students, prospective students, parents, and employees have access to accurate information about on-campus crime and security procedures; and to ensure that they receive warnings of an impending threat or security issue that could result in student harm or death. The Clery Act includes crime-data collection and reporting requirements that are essential for spotting trends and repeated violations and for identifying high-risk areas of campus. Appropriate involvement, initiatives, and action by university campus risk-management teams are especially important for upholding the intent of the act; failure to act or to mitigate known and repeated risks that can foreseeably lead to student harm may result in lawsuits against the college or university by students who can show that the institution was negligent and failed to keep its campus and students safe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Crime categories covered by the Clery Act<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u2019s reporting requirements include:<\/span><\/p>\n