The Clery Act: How campus safety gets tracked
In 1986, Jeanne Clery enrolled at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. But instead of receiving a degree, a federal law looking to increase campus security and transparency became her legacy.
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In 1986, Jeanne Clery enrolled at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. But instead of receiving a degree, a federal law looking to increase campus security and transparency became her legacy.
ASHEBORO — A mandatory annual safety report has again found that Randolph Community College's campus is safe.
Neither one of the survivors currently wishes to press charges, however, UCPD will keep the investigations open in the case that a survivor decides to press charges.
Kristin Smart, the long-missing Stockton student, was 19 years old when she disappeared after attending an on-campus party at Cal Poly during her freshman year. Jeanne Clery was 19 years old when she was raped and murdered in her dorm room by another student while a freshman at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1986. The similar cases, a decade apart, sparked national conversation and shaped legislation that changed universities’ obligations to report crimes, coordinate with off-campus authorities and disclose campus safety data. But have those steps amounted to greater...