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Campus Security Authorities

The information below is for the sole use of those person designated as Campus Security Authorities (CSA) at and for Middlebury College as required by the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistic Act, (Clery Act) as part of the Higher Education act of 1965. The following information is drawn from The Handbook for Campus  Safety and Security  Reporting, U.S Department of Education.

Who is a Campus Security Authority?

What is a CSA responsible for?

What crimes have to be reported?

Location explained

CSA Report Forms

Examples

Resources and Additional Information Available

 

Who is a Campus Security Authority?
 
›Someone who has significant responsibility for student and campus activities, including but not limited to student housing, student discipline, athletics, and campus judicial proceedings
 
›Someone who is designated by the institution as someone to whom crime reports can be made.
 
›Public Safety staff members
 
›Dean of the College, Dean of Students, Commons Heads, Commons Deans, Commons Coordinator, CRAs, CAs, or RAs.
 
›Other Deans or staff who oversee residential life or student activities (e.g., housing, club sports, student groups)
 
›Director of Athletics, coaches, club sports coaches
 
›Faculty advisor to a student group
 
›Other advisors to student groups

What is a CSA responsible for?

›A crime is reported when it is brought to the attention of a CSA, and the report is made in good faith.  The CSA must report the crime to Public Safety by filling out the Campus Security Authority crime report form. 

›Fill out the information on the form and send it in at the time you receive the information
 
›You need to complete the form any time you receive information from a victim, witness or third party (friend, relative, etc.) even if you think it was already reported
 
›You are not responsible for investigating the incident or determining whether a crime took place. You just have to report it.
 
›The Department of Public Safety will determine if a timely notice to the community is required or necessary.
 
›Public Safety will also contact the CSAs annually for crime reports, and if you will need to provide information on these reports or provide a statement that you did not receive any reports.
 
 
›In a report, you should disclose the name of the person making the report (if known).  
 
›When in doubt, contact Lisa Burchard or a member of the Public Safety staff for clarification
 

What Crimes have to be reported?
  • Murder and Nonnegligent Manslaughter
  • Negligent Manslaughter
  • Sex Offense Forcible
  • Sex Offense Non Forcible
  • Robbery
  • Aggravated Assault
  • Burglary
  • Motor Vehicle Theft
  • Arson
  • Liquor Law Violation
  • Drug Law Violation
  • Weapon Law Violation
  • Hate Crimes - any of the serious crimes above, and larceny, vandalism, intimidation (threats of injury/violence), or simple assault motivated by bias.

Definitions of these crimes can be found by clicking here, or in the Handbook for Campus Safety and Security Reporting.

 
Location explained

 Use the CSA report for crimes reported to have occurred:

  • On campus
  • On public property within or immediately adjacent to the campus
    • Hillcrest or College Street
  • In or on non-campus buildings or property that your institution owns or controls.
    • 51 Main Street
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››Noncampus - definition
  • ›Any building or property owned or controlled by a student organization that is officially recognized by the institution;›
  • Any building or property owned or controlled by an institution that is used in direct support of, or in relation to, the institution’s educational purposes, is frequently used by students, and is not within the same reasonably contiguous geographic area of the institution
CSA Crime Report Forms

 
Examples
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  • ›A resident assistant who has been identified as a CSA is told by a fellow student that she has been raped and is seeking emotional and medical support.
›CSA reports using the form regardless of whether the student pursues it with the JAO or police.

 
  • A student mentions to her boyfriend that a number of rooms on her dorm floor were broken into during the previous night’s football game. Later that day, her boyfriend tells the athletics director what he heard. The AD asks which dorm it was and what, if anything else, the boyfriend knows about the incident.

The AD should document the information and forward it to the school’s campus security department per the school’s crime reporting policy.

 
  • ›Ms. Jones, director of Student Housing at your school, gets a call from the director of a counseling center in town. The caller wants to let the director know that four students from the school sought assistance at the center and told the center’s counselors that they had been sexually assaulted on Middlebury College campus and were seeking emotional support. They did not want police investigations.
 
›These are third party reports and Ms. Jones, having no reason to believe that they were not made in good faith, should document all of the information she was given and forward the reports to the Lisa Burchard

 
Resources and Additional Information Available

 
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