The Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act, a consumer protection law passed in 1990, requires all colleges and universities who receive federal funding to share information about crime on campus and their efforts to improve campus safety as well as inform the public of crime in or around campus. This information is made publicly accessible through the university's annual security report.

Daily Crime Log Abbreviations/Meanings:

A: Advocate Report                                          
CR: Community Report                               
CSA: Campus Security Authority Report                   
GC: General District Court   
HPD: Harrisonburg Police Department
OSARP: Office of Student Accountability & Restorative Practices
RCSO: Rockingham County Sheriff's Office
TIX: Title IX

The Clery Act requires colleges and universities to:
  • Publish an annual security report by October 1, containing safety and security related policy statements and crime statistics and distribute it to all current students and employees. Schools also must inform prospective students and employees about the availability of the report.

  • Publish an annual fire safety report by October 1, containing policy statements as well as fire statistics associated with each on-campus student housing facility, including the number of fires, cause of fires, injuries, deaths and property damage. Schools must inform prospective students and employees about the availability of the report.

  • Collect, classify and count crime reports and crime statistics and submit statistics to the Department of Education.

  • Report alleged hazing crimes on Campuis. The Stop Campus Hazing Act was signed into law on December 23, 2024 and amends the Jeanne Clery Disclore of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, 20 U.S.C. § 1092(f) and renames the Clery Act officially as the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act. It requires campuses to compile and disclose statistics on hazing incidents reported and to publish information related to hazing incidents in a newly established Campus Hazing Transparency Reports.

  • Issue campus alerts that provide the campus community with information necessary to make informed decisions about their health and safety. Timely warnings are issued for any Clery Act crime that represents an ongoing threat to the safety of students or employees. Emergency notifications are issued upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on the campus

  • Keep a daily crime log of alleged criminal incidents that is open to public inspection.

  • Keep a daily fire log that records all fires occurring in on-campus housing facilities.

  • Provide educational programs and campaigns that promote the awareness of dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking. All incoming students and new employees must be provided primary prevention and awareness programs and ongoing prevention and awareness campaigns must be provided for students and employees.

  • Require procedures for institutional disciplinary action in cases of dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking. 

  • Disclose missing student notification procedures that pertain to students residing in on campus housing which will aid in determining if a student is missing and in notifying law enforcement personnel. 

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