Comprehensive Campus Safety Planning
Steven J. Healy
Margolis Healy & Associates

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Risks Facing Colleges & Universities
• Natural Disasters
• Sexual and Gender Violence
• Child sexual assault
• Hazing & Bullying
• Alcohol Related Injuries and Deaths
• Suicide
• Rampage shootings
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A Holistic Approach
1. Eliminate Stovepipes and create a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to campus safety and security
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A Holistic Approach
1. Eliminate Stovepipes and create a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to campus safety and security
• Emergency Management Team
• Sexual Assault Response Team
• Violence Prevention Committee
• Threat Assessment/Workplace Violence
Team
• Alcohol & Other Drug Task Force
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A Holistic Approach
2. Engage in meaningful Hazard and
Vulnerability Analysis
• Determine likely human, technological & natural loss events
• Determine the probability of those events occurring
• Assess impact: human, structural, institution
• Determine level of preparedness, unmitigated risk to establish Relative Risk Score
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Hazard Vulnerability Analysis

A Holistic Approach
3. Leverage technology to enhance preparedness
• Mass Notification Systems
• Security Technology
• Situational Awareness
• Social Media and Mobile Apps
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A Holistic Approach
3. Leverage technology to enhance preparedness
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4. Enhance Prevention - Enforce Policies
• Title IX & Clery Act
• Behavioral Threat Assessment and
Management
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Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX), 20 U.S.C. §§ 1681 et seq.
, prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs or activities operated by recipients of
Federal financial assistance
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Defining Sexual Harassment
• Unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature
includes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal, nonverbal, or physical conduct of a sexual nature, including sexual violence.
• Student-to-student harassment:
creates hostile environment if conduct is sufficiently serious that it interferes with or limits a student’s ability to participate in or benefit from the school’s program.
• The more severe the conduct, the less need there is to show a repetitive series of incidents to prove hostile environment, particularly if the harassment is physical (e.g. rape=hostile environment)
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Defining Sexual Violence
• Sexual violence is a form of sexual harassment prohibited by Title IX.
Sexual violence refers to physical sexual acts perpetrated against a person’s will or where a person is incapable of giving consent due to the victim’s use of drugs or alcohol
An individual also may be unable to give consent due to an intellectual or other disability
May include rape, sexual assault, sexual battery, and sexual coercion
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Scope of Coverage
• Title IX protects your students and employees from sexual harassment in an institution’s education programs and activities, including:
- All academic, educational, extracurricular, athletic, and other programs of the institution
- On-campus, off-campus, in transit, sponsored at other locations, etc.
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Overview of Mandates
• Notice of Non-discrimination
• Title IX Coordinator
• Grievance Procedures
- Prompt and equitable
- Notice
- Adequate, reliable, and impartial investigation of complaints
- Designated and reasonably prompt time frames
- Notice of outcome
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Overview of Mandates
• Education and Prevention
• Remedies and Enforcement
• Training
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What is this thing called “Clery?”
• A consumer rights bill
• An institutional responsibility
• Not JUST campus public safety
• Campus-wide collaboration and cooperation CRITICAL to success
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Clery Act 101
• Publish & distribute an Annual Security Report w/various policy statements, policies and statistics
(NLT October 1, each year) (approx. 23 policies)
• Inform prospective students & employees about the Annual Security Report
• Submit crime statistics to U.S. Dept. of Education
• Provide timely notice and emergency notifications
• Maintain a public, daily log of reported crimes
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Campus SaVE Act
• Part of VAWA Reauthorization Act
• Amends HEA “to improve education and prevention related to campus sexual violence, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking ”
• Codifies much of 2011 OCR DCL
• Effective March 2014 (good faith effort
NOW)
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Overview of Threat Assessment Process
Threat assessment is a four-part process that is designed to:
• Identify persons of concern
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• Gather information/investigate
• Assess information and situation
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• If necessary, manage the person and situation to reduce overall threat and get person needed help
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A Holistic Approach
4. Enhance Prevention and Enforce Policies
• Title IX & Clery Act
• Behavioral Threat Assessment and
Management
• Minors on Campus & Child Sexual Abuse
• Safety Awareness and Readiness
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A Holistic Approach
5. Create a Chief Safety Officer position
• Reporting directly to the institution’s
President
• Leads all safety and security initiatives
• Has equal standing w/other senior administrators
• Increases focus on safety, security, and readiness
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A Holistic Approach
1. Eliminate Stovepipes – embrace multidisciplinary approach
2. HVA – meaningful hazard identification
3. Leverage Technology – use it wisely
4. Enhance Prevention & Enforce Policies
5. Create Chief Safety & Security Officer
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