Crime Data

In a nationwide effort to improve campus safety and transparency, the United States Congress in 1990 signed an act into federal law that is now known as the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act. 

The Clery Act requires all colleges and universities that receive federal funding to maintain records of crimes that occur on, in, or adjacent to campus, and to make these records readily available to the public. The Clery Act was named after Jeanne Clery, a freshman at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, who was raped and murdered in her dorm room in 1986. Jeanne’s parents believed that if Jeanne had been aware of Lehigh University’s crime rate, which was recorded but not disclosed at the time, she would not have attended.  

Colleges and universities that fall under the Clery Act, which includes Western Technical College, compile daily crime and fire logs as well as annual campus security reports, both of which are available on Western’s Campus Community Safety website. The Clery Act also requires colleges and universities to provide timely warnings of crimes that threaten the safety of students and staff. Western utilizes the Rave Alert notification system by Rave Mobile Safety to deliver these warnings. 

Western’s Daily Crime and Fire Log can be accessed via the banner above. Each entry includes the date, time, nature of the incident, location, and disposition. For a more detailed explanation of dispositions, see the list below. For any questions regarding Western’s Daily Crime and Fire Log, please contact the Campus Community Safety Office.