Discussion List for campus-based and allied personnel working to end gender-based violence on campus.

[Angela DiNunzio Seguin <>]

  Hello All,
   
  I spent the last 2 days attending the Clery Act
  Training sponsored by Security On Campus, Inc. and
  have come to the conclusion that I need to make a
  few changes related to the rape crisis service I
  coordinate because I don't think we are quite
  in compliance with Clery.  Currently my
  schools's Clery stats and our Annual Security Report
  are generated by the police and include crimes
  reported to them & Residence Life only. 
   
  Our volunteer organization has always felt that our
  service was protected because the service is a
  volunteer service, is (indirectly) run out of the
  Counseling Center, is both confidential AND
  anonymous, and we don't always get full information
  about incidents reported to us -- like location, or
  exact dates, etc.  We don't ask for it and callers
  don't always disclose it.  Since we don't get names
  or identifying information, we don't always know if
  our callers have called us more than once, which can
  muddy the waters for reporting for Clery.  But there
  are obviously times when callers have been assaulted
  within 24 hours, give us some info about the crime,
  and choose not to report to police - so we know they
  aren't being counted in Clery stats.  And we could
  send those stats to police.  I am not a pastoral
  counselor or a licensed mental health counselor
  employed by my school to do that job, so I am
  considered a Campus Security Authority and expected
  to report crimes brought to me for Clery.
   
  Have any of the rest of you tackled this problem
  already?  I know that some schools use Sexual
  Assault Incident Reports which any staff members on
  their campuses can fill out in order to report a
  crime (without student names) to police and report
  for Clery statistics.  I am hoping that a few of you
  who use such a form would be willing to share it
  with me and perhaps say a few words about how the
  process works for submitting such a form on
  your campus and any other helpful advice you might
  have!  Or if you also run a victim advocacy or
  crisis service at your school and you have found
  some other method of handling Clery, please let me
  know how you do it!
  Thanks,
  Angela

Angela DiNunzio Seguin
Program Coordinator
S.O.S. (Sexual Offense Support)
Wellspring: Student Wellness Program
University of Delaware
(302) 831-3457
http://www.udel.edu/wellspring