Ethics, Compliance and Audit Services
Clery Act: UC’s Crime Reporting & Campus Safety Program
The University of California makes every effort to provide safe campus environments for its students. Every UC campus has a police department staffed by sworn peace officers with full law enforcement authority as well as an array of counseling, education, and safety programs. Campus judicial officers use both discipline and counseling to stop abusive behavior and solve problems.
UC campuses conduct safety training as part of new student orientation and offer similar sessions for continuing students. They maintain professionally staffed health and counseling centers that help students be proactive in protecting themselves, as well as dealing with emergencies. Campus residence hall staff are trained to assist students in dispute resolution, promote safe practices, and manage crises. Automated locks and entrance control technologies protect residence halls. This combination of staffing and organizational and physical infrastructure is designed to help young adults learn to take responsibility for their own safety in a context of accurate knowledge of risks and available resources.
What is the Clery Act? The Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act is part of the Higher Education Act of 1965. The goal of the Clery Act is to ensure students, employees, prospective campus community members and other affiliates have access to complete and accurate information about campus security procedures and crimes committed on or immediately adjacent to institutional property.
For more information: View the links below for additional details, and/or contact your campus Clery Officer.
Details of the Clery Act
Details on operational requirements, Campus Security Authorities and how campuses can best comply with the Clery Act.
Crime and Safety Reporting
Information on campus reporting responsibilities, the types of statistics that must be included, and confidentiality concerns.
Campus Clery Act Reporting and Contacts
View links to Clery Act reporting for individual campuses and contact information for campus Clery Act Coordinators.
Clery Act Appendix for FSA Handbook PDF
This resource provides specific information on campus safety and security reporting, crime statistics and definitions, collecting statistics, daily crime logs and more relating to the Clery Act. This resource replaced the 2016 Handbook for Campus Safety and Security Reporting (“2016 edition”).