Clery Act History
In April of 1986, at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, a student named Jeanne Clery was raped and murdered in her residence hall (dorm room). In the three years before Clery's attack, Lehigh University experienced 38 violent events. This vital information was not provided and could have aided in Jeanne Clery’s parents’ decision to send their daughter somewhere else – somewhere safer.
In 1990, congress enacted the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act which was later renamed the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, but today it is commonly known as the Clery Act.
“The best education in the world is useless if a student doesn't survive with a healthy body and mind.”
-Connie and Howard Clery
Jeanne Clery; photo courtesy Clery Center.
