The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crimes Statistics Act is a federal consumer protection law, enforced by the Clery Compliance Team within the Department of Education’s Financial AidDivision. This law formed because of Jeanne Clery who was a first-year student at Lehigh University in April 1986 when she was raped and murdered in her dorm room. Her parents, Howard and Connie Clery, worked tirelessly at the local, state and national level to create legislation that became what we know today as the Clery Act.
The Clery Act provides guidelines and expectations for campus crime classification and reporting, crime prevention and response and campus safety policy and procedure requirements that create transparency between institutions of higher education, students and employees. Institutions of higher education receiving federal financial aid under Title IV are required to comply fully with the Clery Act. The Clery Act requires institutions to complete certain annual and ongoing tasks. TTC is committed to adhere to the requirements of the law by producing this annual security report. Due to the Clery Act, awareness of safety and security policies and procedures have encouraged transparency to concerns around certain incidents and Clery crime statistics.