Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery)
What Is The Clery Act?
In 1990, Congress enacted the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act (Title II of Public Law 101-542), which amended the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA). This act required all post-secondary institutions participating in Title IV student financial aid programs to disclose campus crime statistics and security information. This act was amended in 1992, 1998, and 2000. The 1998 amendments renamed the law the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act. In memory of a student who was slain in her dorm room in 1986.
What Does This Mean?
The Clery Act requires all higher education institutions to give timely warnings of crimes that represent a threat to the safety of students or employees and to make public their campus security policies. It also requires that crime data are to be collected, reported, and disseminated to the campus community and are also submitted to ED. This act is intended to provide students and their families, as higher education consumers, with accurate, complete, and timely information about safety on campus so that they can make informed decisions.
What Lee University Is obligated to Do?
To be in compliance with Clery Act regulations, Lee University has several obligations. These fall into three main categories:
- Policy disclosure
- Records collection and retention
- Information dissemination
All Crime Statistics associated with Clery can be found under the Crime Statistics tab.
Crime Statistics
The Department of Campus Security submits a monthly crime report to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. Below are statistics for the previous three years concerning reported crimes that occurred on campus; in certain off-campus buildings or property owned or controlled by Lee University; and on public property within, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from, the campus. You can obtain a copy of this report by contacting the Department of Campus Security or by clicking below (Adobe Acrobat Reader required).
Clery Act Annual Security and Fire Safety Report
NOTE: Lee University is required, pursuant to the Federal Student Right to Know and Campus Security Act of 1990 (20 USCS § 1092), to prepare, publish, and distribute an annual safety report containing information with respect to the campus security policies and campus crime statistics of the institution. To comply with this Federal requirement, the Lee University Department of Campus Security publishes various crime awareness and campus safety brochures and reports. To obtain copies of any of these publications, please contact the Department of Campus Security.
Daily Crime Log
The daily crime log is for the sole purpose of recording alleged criminal incidents that are reported to Campus Security. It is not to be a catch-all incident log. (Example: if a student reports losing her wallet in the parking lot behind a dorm, it is not a criminal incident, and there is no requirement to record it in the log).
Lee University is not required to update the disposition of a crime log entry after 60 days have passed. This means 60 days after the entry was made in the log, not 60 days after the crime occurred.
The crime log for the most recent 60-day period must be open to public inspection, upon request, during normal business hours. Anyone may ask to see the log, regardless of if they are associated with Lee University. Any portion of the log that is older than 60 days must be made available within two business days of a request for public inspection. Lee University must provide students and employees with a description of the log, noting its location and availability.
Crime logs must be kept for three years following the publication of the last annual security report to which they apply (in effect, seven years). The crime log itself is not submitted to ED, although Campus Security must produce it during an audit or review.