2024 ANNUAL SECURITY REPORT 16 personal contact with students and staff using student leaders, such as CAs or other staff members. Kutztown University, through its Chief of Police, communicates with local police authorities and annually requests their cooperation in informing the institution of any incidences that may require the issuance of an Emergency Notification. KU reciprocates with sharing information with Kutztown Borough Police that may provide Borough residents with valuable safety information. TIMELY WARNING NOTICES When KUPD receives a notification of a reported Clery crime that has taken place on campus, in Kutztown University-owned or controlled property off campus or in its public property and that crime poses a serious or ongoing threat to the campus community, KUPD will issue a Timely Warning Notice (TWN). The TWN will be issued once the Chief of Police, or the ranking KUPD officer in charge during his absence, determines the crime poses a serious and continuing threat and a TWN can enable people to protect themselves and/or their property from a similar crime. All available information, both public and confidential, will be taken into consideration when determining if a serious or continuing threat exists. Those considerations include, but are not limited to, the relationship between victims and perpetrators, whether an arrest has been made that mitigates the threat and the amount of time that has passed between the commission of the crime and Public Safety being notified of the crime. Each case will be evaluated on an individual basis. Timely Warning Notices are distributed for the following Clery Act crimes: criminal homicide (murder, non-negligent manslaughter, and negligent manslaughter), sexual assault (rape, fondling, incest, and statutory rape), robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, dating violence, domestic violence, stalking, arson, and hate crimes. A TWN may also be issued for an arrest or referral for a liquor, drug, or weapons law violation if it poses a serious or ongoing threat to the campus and occurred within Clery geography. The Chief of Police reviews all reports and if he determines there is a serious and ongoing threat to the community, a TWN is issued. If, in the Chief’s professional judgment, issuing a TWN would compromise efforts to address the crime, the notice may be delayed, or information may be limited. Once the potentially compromising situation has been addressed, the TWN will be issued immediately if the serious or continuing threat still exists. Timely Warning Notices may also be posted for other crime classifications, as deemed necessary. The decision to issue a TWN is considered on a caseby-case basis, depending on the facts of the case and the information known by the KUPD. KU may not necessarily issue Timely Warnings for every Clery Act criminal incident that is reported since that specific incident may not pose a continuing threat to the community. For example, if an assault occurs between two students who have a disagreement, there may be no ongoing threat to other KU community members and a TWN would not be issued. If, however, a student was assaulted walking across campus late at night by an unknown assailant, a TWN would be issued since there is a risk of similar crimes and other community members may be at risk. When the issuance of a Timely Warning Notice is warranted, the KU Police Department will provide University Relations (UR) with the content of the message. UR will send the notices to the community as instructed. This warning may be distributed via the KU Alert Emergency Notification System which will implement some or all or the system options, which includes e-mail messages and text messages (students and others can sign up for this service at www.kutztown.edu/kualert/). Other possible means of communication include: postings on the Kutztown University website, social media sites, on bulletin boards outside the Public Safety Communication Center (15 Old Main) and off the main lobby in the McFarland Student Union and personal contact with students and staff using student leaders, such as Community Assistants (CAs) or other staff members. Kutztown University, through its Chief of Police, verbally communicates with local police authorities and annually requests their cooperation in informing
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