CLERY Report

There is often much confusion about the "Clery Report". Organizations know that they need to do it, but don’t really know what it is. While state, county and municpal agencies have been required to file FBI Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) for several decades; colleges and universities had no such requirement to report crime. The "Clery Act" corrected this reporting oversight.

The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act is the landmark federal law, originally known as the "Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990, that requires colleges and universities across the United States to disclose information about crime on and around their campuses.

While the Clery Act requires colleges and universities to report crime, it does not specifically mandate any certain form or format that need be used for reporting. In fact it is recommended that the FBI UCR standards be followed whenever possible. While Clery reporting uses similar definitions and standards to FBI UCR, the primary difference or deviation is that crimes must be tabulated more specifically by location defining on-campus, off-campus, near-camus, in-campus living quarters (dorms etc.).

Since the number of campuses, buildings and facilities that are controlled by a specific college or university varies widely from one institution to another there is no one size fits all CLERY report. The exact method that your organization chooses to implement will depend upon your organizational and geographic circumstances. To address this condition Crimestar RMS allows all FBI UCR reports to be run, not only by date, but also by date AND any specific BEAT, SECTOR or DISTRICT. This allows you to define the BEAT, SECTOR and DISTRICT geographic location codes that are inherant to all Crimestar modules in a manner that makes them condusive to your desired CLERY reporting areas.

Thus you can produce UCR reports for different building or building types, different campuses etc. depending upon your needs and satify your organizations CLERY reporting requirements.

*The "Clery Act" is named in memory of 19 year old Lehigh University freshman Jeanne Ann Clery who was raped and murdered while asleep in her residence hall room on April 5, 1986.