Jeanne Clery Act

In 1990 Congress enacted the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act. This act requires all public or private postsecondary institutions participating in Title IV student financial aid programs to disclose campus crime statistics and security information. The act was amended in 1992, 1998, 2000, and 2008. The act was renamed the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (shortened to the Clery Act) in 1998.

The Clery Act requires higher education institutions to: develop, implement and disclose campus security, fire, missing persons and evacuation policies and procedures; alert the campus community through “timely warnings” of a serious or continuing threat to safety, develop and maintain a daily crime and fire log, develop and distribute an annual security and fire safety report that discloses policies and procedures and three years of crime and fire statistics, and report crime statistics to the US Department of Education annually.