BACKGROUND OF CLERY ACT
• In 1986, Jeanne Clery, a student at Lehigh University, was raped and murdered in her dorm room by another student. • There had been 38 violent crimes on Lehigh’s campus in three years before Jeanne’s murder. • At the time there was no guidelines for schools reporting crimes that occurred on campus. • The Clery family sued Lehigh University for what their daughter “did not know.” • The family launched a nationwide campaign to force colleges and universities to disclose their crime statistics. • In 1990, the Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security; Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act was signed into law.
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