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Safety and Security
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20 U.S.C. Section 1092 [first enacted in 1990 as Title II of Public Law 101-542; amended 1992 & 1998; can be cited as Section 485(f) of the Higher Education Act of 20 U.S.C. 1092(f); the 1998 amendments renamed the Higher Education Act of "Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act"] (4)(a) Each institution participating in any program under this title that maintains a police or security department of any kind shall make, keep, and maintain a daily log, written in a form that can be easily under-stood, recording all crimes reported to such police or security department, including- (i) the nature, date, time, and general location of each crime; and (ii) the disposition of the complaint, if known. (B)(i) All entries that are required pursuant to this paragraph shall, except where disclosure of such information is prohibited by law or such disclosure would jeopardize the confidentiality of the victim, be open to public inspection with 2 business days of the initial report being made to the department or a campus security authority. (ii) If new information about an entry into a log becomes available to a police or security department, then the new information shall be recorded in the log not later that 2 business days after the information becomes available to the police or security department. (iii) If there is clear and convincing evidence that the release of such information would jeopardize an ongoing criminal investigation or the safety of an individual cause a suspect to flee or evade detection or result in the destruction of evidence, such information may be withheld until that damage is no longer likely to occur from the release of such information.
March 2005
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