The Clery Act and the Higher Education Opportunity of 2008 are consumer awareness laws that require TCU to:
- Provide current and prospective employees and students with access to important crime and fire safety policy-related information for the current year as well as crime and fire data for the three previous years. This information is in the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.
- Alert the campus community in near-real-time to dangerous situations.
- Have missing student notification policies and procedures in place for students who reside in on-campus housing.
- Maintain a daily crime and fire log of reported criminal incidents that is open to the public.
- Submit Clery Act crime statistics (and fire statistics related to on-campus student housing facilities) to the U.S. Department of Education.
- Provide educational programs and campaigns to promote awareness of dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
- Provide processes for the investigation of missing residential students.
Clery Geographical Borders
The Clery Act requires institutions to disclose statistics for Clery Act crimes that occur (1) on campus, (2) on public property within or immediately adjacent to the campus, and (3) in or on noncampus buildings or property that the institution owns or controls.