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College Crime Statistics
The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime
Statistics Act is the landmark federal law, originally known as
the Campus Security Act, that requires colleges and
universities across the
United
States
to disclose information about crime
on and around their campuses.
Because the law is tied to participation in federal student
financial aid programs it applies to most institutions of higher education both
public and private. It is enforced by the U.S. Department of Education.
The "Clery Act" is named
in memory of 19 year old
Lehigh
University freshman
Jeanne Ann Clery who was raped and murdered while
asleep in her residence hall room on April 5, 1986.
Jeanne's parents, Connie and Howard, discovered that students
hadn't been told about 38 violent crimes on the Lehigh campus in the three
years before her murder. They joined with other campus crime victims and
persuaded Congress to enact this law, which was originally known as the
"Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990."
The law was amended in 1992 to add a requirement that schools
afford the victims of campus sexual assault certain basic rights, and was
amended again in 1998 to expand the reporting requirements. The 1998 amendments
also formally named the law in memory of Jeanne Clery.
The law was most recently amended in 2000 to require schools
beginning in 2003 to notify the campus community about where public
"Megan's Law" information about registered sex offenders on campus
could be obtained.
CRIME STATISTICS: Main Campus
Criminal Offenses – On Campus
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