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Effectiveness Of Clery Act Timely Warnings And Emergency Notifications, Travis W. Douglas Aug 2019

Effectiveness Of Clery Act Timely Warnings And Emergency Notifications, Travis W. Douglas

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The Clery Act (20 USC. § 1092(f)) is a federal law intended to improve campus safety by making information about crime as well as safety and security policies more accessible. Research has shown that the law’s requirements to collect crime statistics and publish annual security reports have limited impact. Little research has examined the effectiveness of the timely warning and emergency notification provisions. This study explored the perceptions of Campus Security Authorities (CSAs) to determine whether timely warning and emergency notification messages are an effective tool for improving campus safety; to what degree they result in unintended harmful effects; and …