The Clery Update

Announcements

COMING SOON!!! The Clery Compliance Office has put together a brief training on the Stop Campus Hazing Act. The  training video was shot last week and will be landing in your inboxes soon. As always, the trainings wil come from the noreply@cleryedge.com email address. It is a legitimate email sent by me. There is brief quiz after the training.

The Clery Compliance Office will a Nespresso machine (with attached milk steamer) beginning March 10, 2025. Come on by for a cup and we can talk Clery compliance or anything else!

Summer Camp Staff. We are entering the season of summer staff camp hiring. If you did not know already, these folks ARE CSAs (see below). The Clery Compliance Officer and HR have teamed up to ensure these individuals are identified as CSAs as they're hired. Once identified these CSAs will be assigned the necessary training.

Be Clear on Clery

No quiz for this issue because I wanted to focus on a term you'll be hearing in your upcoming Stop Campus Hazing Act training. The term is "co-occuring crime." Co-occuring crime means multiple crimes commited in a single act. In your role  as a CSA, an incident may be reported to you where multiple crimes occur in one act.
For example, in the hazing context you may receive information about an incident of hazing where, to join a student organization, prospective members were subjected to physical beatings. In that case you would have the crimes of hazing AND aggravated assault. The point here is— include everything you are told, more information is always better.

Upcoming Clery Dates

No upcoming dates.

Clery Fact/Did You Know

Summer camp staff (sports, band, academic, etc.) are considered CSAs. Summer camp staff meet the second of the four-part definition of a Campus Security Authority and are regarded as, "individuals responsible for campus security in some capacity but not members of a campus police/security department."

The safety of young campers on campus is entrusted to you and your staff. For example, if the university issued a Timely Warning or an Emergency Notification during the summer months; it would fall to you and your staff to alert your campers (and their parents if necessary) of that notice since they would most likely not have access to the WCU Alert system.  Also, it is entirely foreseeable that campers would and could report crimes or incidents on campus to summer camp staff. Thus, because of this unique role and responsibility West Chester classifies these employees as Campus Security Authorities. A real world example of the importance placed upon this classification comes to us from Baylor University.

A Final Program Review Determination (FPRD) of Baylor University from the Department of Education found Baylor's identification and training of summer CSAs was lacking since it "fails to meet fundamental CSA requirements for the reporting of crime statistics and the issuance of timely warning(s)."  The FPRD also found Baylor was "unable to provide proof that its camp directors or camp employees had been formally identified as CSAs or trained to perform CSA duties..."

West Chester University has a dedicated training for summer camp CSAs which will be rolled out to camp staff as they're  hired throughout the spring.

Reminders

Test Your Clery Knowledge

The Stop Campus Hazing Act changed the official title of the Clery Act from the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act  to:

1. The Clery Act
2. The thing JP always bothers me about
3. the Campus Stats Act
4.  The Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act

answer at bottom

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