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Off Campus Crime
While the Clery Act requires Texas universities to report on campus crime, they are not required to report any off campus crime that affects their students. The numbers were staggering and showed a clear difference in the safety of students on campus versus off.
Tags: Texas Tech; Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act; Clery Act; campus crime
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Sexual Assault on Campus: A Frustrating Search for Justice
As part of a collaborative effort with the Investigative News Network, the Center for Public Integrity finds that students responsible for sexual assault on college campuses often receive no punishment, yet their victims' lives are turned upside down. Even when the perpetrator is a repeat offender, college judicial systems rarely expel the student.
Tags: sexual assault; rape; victim; perpetrator; sex crime; rapist; rape victim; rape on campus; rape in college
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Clery Crime Reporting Errors
"Stories documented the university's failure to disclose sex offenses, burglaries and other crimes on the Tarleton campus. None of 10 sex offenses reported by federal law, to DOE. Further, the university disclosed only about half of the burglaries that took place on campus".
Tags: college; education; students; crime; police; law enforcement; records; underreported; university; Department of Education(DOE)
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Failure to Report
This investigation "uncovered more than 200 rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults inside Memphis City Schools that were routinely hidden". All these cases were hidden by school employees, parents, and even police in an attempt to keep the crime statistics low. This left the victimized children with nowhere to turn and received zero amounts of help.
Tags: children; kids; schools; education; teachers; campus; school district; learning
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University Alert System Fails
An armed robbery taking place just feet off of the University of Miami campus failed to trigger a system-wide emergency notification. The text messages and e-mails meant to alert students and faculty of the danger were never sent out. CBS4 uncovers the failure.
Tags: armed robbery; University of Miami; alert; system; fail; students; crime; gunmen; e-mails; text messages; emergency;
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Investigating Campus Crime
Students and parents are led to believe that NYU campus crime is far safer than it appears because of the difficulty of interpreting the crime reports. Nearly 97 percent of drug cases never reached the Public Safety department, and in seven years the department had never responded to incidents involving alcohol.
Tags: department of education; paraphernalia; crime statistics; residence hall; off campus;
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A Dangerous Lesson
Schools in Harris County were found to be hiding reports of campus crime from the state agency, in addition to watering down the seriousness of offenses ranging from assault charges to weapon and drug possession. One school didn't have any reports on paper of fighting or drug possession for an entire year.
Tags: school shooting; student code of conduct; sexual assault; misreporting; No Child Left Behind;
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Education in Crossfire
It was found that 160 gun crimes had been committed on Memphis public school campuses over the last five years.
Tags: gun control; juvenile; weapons; Melrose High; caliber; handgun;
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Arrested Education
Dougherty County School System experienced a rise of violent crimes on both their high and middle school campuses between 2000 and 2004. But due to poor record keeping, school officials didn't know how bad the situation was. In 2004 there were 5.5 violent incidents resulting in at least one arrest, for every 1,000 students, compared to neighboring Lee County, where the rate was only .56 violent incidents resulting in arrest, for every 1,000 students.
Tags: school crime; record keeping; violence; student arrests
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Insecurity on Campus
As reported by two teams of journalism students at Southern Methodist University and Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism at the University of North Texas, many colleges were failing to inform students about violent crimes-such as rape-in and around their campuses. Also, many campuses were misinterpreting or ignoring the Clery Act, which requires disclosure of campus-related crimes. Many rapes were ignored or were logged as simple 'assaults'. As a result, U.S. Department of Education launched an investigation into the story's findings.
Tags: campus crimes; date rape; sexual abuse; sex; college; Clery Act; Texas universities; U.S. Department of Education