Annual Safety Reports and the Clery Act

The Annual Safety Report and an archive of older reports are available at https://safetyreport.colostate.edu/.

About the Clery Act

The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security and Campus Crime Statistics Act is the landmark federal law that requires colleges and universities to disclose information on security policies and timely, annual information about crime on and around campus.

The CSU Police Department is responsible for releasing campus crime statistics to the university community. The Annual Fire and Safety Report informs the university community about important procedures, policies, crime prevention programs and crime statistics for the previous three years concerning reported crimes that occurred on-campus, on non-campus properties owned or controlled by Colorado State University, and on public property surrounding or immediately adjacent to campus.

A printed copy of the Annual Fire and Safety Report is available upon request at the CSU Police Department in Green Hall.

Registered sex offenders

The CSU Police Department is required to notify the university community about where public information regarding registered sex offenders can be obtained (Megan’s Law). A current listing of sex offenders is available at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation website.

Timely warning policy and emergency notifications

The Chief of Police and, as appropriate, other members of the Public Safety Team will determine if there is a serious, ongoing or continuing threat on or off campus. If so, a campus-wide timely warning may be issued through the Colorado State University email system or other notification methods. When there is an immediate threat to health and safety, the university will issue an emergency notification. More information regarding timely warnings and emergency notifications is provided in the Annual Fire and Safety Report.

Campus Security Authority Information

A campus security authority is a university employee, student, or contractor that is federally mandated under the Clery Act with the responsibility to report crimes to the university that are reported to them. The campus security authority role falls under one of the following four categories:

  1. You are a member of the CSU Police Department.
  2. You are not a member of the CSU Police Department but are responsible for campus security.
  3. You have been designated by CSU as someone to whom crimes should be reported. (for example, Title IX coordinator)
  4. You are someone with significant responsibility for student and campus activities. (for example, a director who oversees housing, an athletic director, a faculty advisor to a student group or club)

Campus Security Authority Training and Reference Information

Please see this webpage for information about campus security authorities

Reporting a crime required by Clery

If you have been designated as a campus security authority under the above definition, it is your responsibility to complete the below crime reporting form, whether or not a crime was reported to you during the requested year.

A campus security authority is required to report a crime to the university within two days of receiving information about the crime in addition to submitting a yearly report attesting that either they reported all crimes that were reported to them, or that no crimes were reported to them during the prior calendar year.

Geographical boundaries required by the Clery Act

Clery geography includes buildings and property that are part of the institution’s campus (including a subset of on-campus student housing facilities), the institution’s non-campus buildings or property, and public property within or immediately adjacent to and accessible from the campus.

Map of the university’s Clery geography

On-campus

  • Any building or property owned or controlled by an institution within the same reasonably contiguous geographic area and used by the institution in direct support of, or in a manner related to, the institution’s educational purposes, including residence halls
  • Any building or property that is within or reasonably contiguous to campus that is owned by the institution but controlled by another person, is frequently used by students, and supports institutional purposes (such as food or other retail vendors)

On-campus student housing facility

  • Any student housing facility that is owned or controlled by the university or is located on property that is owned or controlled by the university, and is within the reasonably contiguous geographic area that makes up the campus.

Public property

  • All public property, including thoroughfares, streets, sidewalks, and parking facilities, that is within the campus, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from the campus. Typically defined as the sidewalk, street, and adjacent sidewalk.

Non-campus property

  • 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

For questions regarding campus security authorities, statistics, reporting, or geography contact:

Rebecca Miller
Rebecca.S.Miller@colostate.edu
Clery Compliance Officer
Safety and Risk Services
Colorado State University
P: (970) 491-6379
Administration Building, #318J
6001 Campus Delivery | Fort Collins, CO 80523-6001

For questions regarding Title IX, contact:

The Office of Title IX Programs and Gender Equity