The Clery Act
A message from the Office of Clery Compliance
Welcome to Wake Forest University.
The Office of Clery Compliance at Wake Forest University is located on the second floor of Alumni Hall on the Reynolda Campus in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Our mission
The mission of the Office of Clery Compliance is to create and promote a safe campus community and to provide accurate and timely information to help campus community members make informed decisions about their safety.
Campus collaboration
The safety and wellbeing of the Wake Forest University (WFU) community members and visitors is a priority. In compliance with federal statute 20 U.S.C. § 1092(f) The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act), WFU has established the Office of Clery Compliance. This office is strategically positioned within the University Police Department to ensure timely assessments and classifications of Clery reportable incidents within WFU-identified Clery geography. The University maintains both a crime log and fire log. Statistical data for Clery crimes and fires in student housing facilities are used to compile the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (ASFSR) as described under §668.46. The ASFSR also contains information on fire safety systems in each student residence hall. In the event the issuance of a timely warning or emergency notification is warranted, WFU will use the cell phone numbers of students, faculty, and staff to send text alerts during an emergency and multiple modalities for timely warnings.
The Clery Office compiles its statistics by reviewing police and security reports provided by WFUPD and contracted security companies, reports received by Campus Security Authorities (CSAs), Title IX, Maxient student conduct software system, and the Silent Witness reporting mechanism. As required by the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008, Wake Forest University has also established a Missing Student Policy. The purpose of this policy is to establish procedures for the University’s response to reports of a missing student.
The Clery Office collaborates with university-wide departments to meet compliance requirements and to bring attention to initiatives and resources both on and off campus. Clery compliance is a campus-wide responsibility. Informing, educating, and providing support to the campus community and supports the WFUPD commitment to a comprehensive approach to providing a safe and inclusive community for all.
More information on the University’s Clery Compliance efforts and to read the current Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (ASFSR). A hard copy of the ASFSR may be obtained free of charge at the Wake Forest University Police Department.
Regards,
Sonja Blea
Director, Clery Compliance
clery@wfu.edu
Chris Batista
Clery Compliance Coordinator
clery@wfu.edu
About The Clery Act
The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act of 1989 is a federal part of the Higher Education Act of 1965. This law requires institutions of higher education to participate in federal financial aid programs to comply with various requirements related to safety on campus. Requirements include reporting crime statistics, reported fires in student housing facilities owned or controlled by the university, drug and alcohol, crime, violence against women, emergency management, and fire prevention programming. The Clery Act requires the WFU PD to maintain a daily crime and fire log of all criminal incidents and alleged criminal incidents that are reported to the campus police department. This data is collected and published in the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report on or by October 1 each year. The report also includes various institutional policies and procedures addressing these topics.
Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (ASFSR)
Who Was Jeanne Clery
The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act) is named after 19-year-old Lehigh University student Jeanne Clery, who, during her freshman year, was raped and murdered in her campus dorm room by a fellow student not known to her. Following Jeanne’s death, her parents lobbied to require institutions of higher education to disclose information about crime on and near their respective institutionally owned or controlled property. Over the years, additional initiatives have been added to the Clery Act to strengthen prevention programming and transparency around campus safety and security.
Clery Missing Student
The Missing Student policy is to establish procedures for the University’s response to reports of missing students, as required by the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (“the Act”).
Campus Security Authority
The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act final rule of November 1, 1999, designates certain members of the university community as Campus Security Authorities. This group includes but is not limited to a dean of students who oversees student housing, a student center, or student extra-curricular activities; or a director of athletics, a team coach, or a faculty adviser to a student group. The following are probably not campus security authorities: a single teaching faculty member (other than an adviser to a student group), a physician in a campus health center, a counselor in a counseling center whose only responsibility is to provide care to students, or campus clerical staff.