By Madi Alexander, Senior Staff Writer
University police failed to publish up-to-date crime statistics in the 2012 annual security report by the federally-established deadline.
The 2012 annual security report downloaded April 20 from the university police department’s website showed only statistics from 2008-2010.
Click here to view the first publication of the annual security report.
The Clery Act, a federal law requiring all colleges and universities receiving federal financial aid to publish security policies and crime statistics, requires three years of crime statistics be reported in an annual security report.
The report must include the past three years of the most recent Clery crime statistics and be published by the deadline, according to the Act. The 2012 security report should have included crime statistics from 2009, 2010 and 2011.
“You must publish and distribute your annual security report by Oct. 1 each year,” according to the Education Department’s Clery Act compliance handbook. “This is a firm deadline. There is no grace period and there are no exemptions.”
The file was corrected April 21 to include 2011 crime statistics, leaving the public without the most recent data for nearly seven months. Click here to view the corrected file.
The report was corrected after other potential Clery violations were brought to the police department’s attention by reporters from News on the Twos, the university’s student newscast.
Read more about potential Clery Act compliance issues in University officials refuse prompt release of crime logs and University police violate federal campus safety law.
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