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Keep up with legal requirements involving Clery Act's campus alerts
Author(s) -
Hanson Hayley,
Irwin Ben
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
campus legal advisor
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-6239
pISSN - 1531-3999
DOI - 10.1002/cala.40101
Subject(s) - reputation , computer security , medical emergency , business , computer science , internet privacy , law , medicine , political science
Under the Clery Act, certain dangerous situations require institutions to issue timely warnings and emergency notifications (collectively, “campus alerts”). Failure to issue campus alerts when required to do so by law can result in noncompliance findings and fines from the U.S. Department of Education during a program review, as well as a less secure campus environment and damage to institutional reputation. Although these two types of campus alerts have similarities, they also have some notable distinctions.