{"id":2982,"date":"2020-07-02T06:23:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T06:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/?p=2982"},"modified":"2020-09-11T11:56:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T11:56:35","slug":"what-is-the-clery-act-and-why-should-you-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/what-is-the-clery-act-and-why-should-you-care\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Clery Act And Why Should You Care?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is the Clery Act<\/strong>? What\u2019s so important about it? What you \u2013 a student \u2013 should know about it? Read on to learn the answers to these questions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the Clery Act?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Under the Clery Act<\/a>, colleges receiving federal funding must track and record crimes that happen over and around the campus. They are also required to make the crime statistics public every year. The institution must publish their findings in the form of an annual security report.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The colleges must also maintain a crime log and have an emergency notification and timely warning system in place. The Clery Act also contains the campus sexual assault victim\u2019s bill of rights. We\u2019ll discuss it in the later half of the article.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s an Annual Security Report?<\/b><\/h2>\n

An Annual Security Report<\/a>, also called the ASR, is a compilation of the statistics of campus crime, and what the college is doing to prevent such crimes. The report shares what the college is doing to better the safety of its students and staff. The Clery Act requires that colleges publish and distribute their Annual Security Reports by October 1<\/span>st<\/span> every year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The report gene<\/span> rally contains the information listed below.<\/span><\/p>\n