The Accent is focused on providing its readers with important news that concerns all ACC students, staff and surrounding community. The following database will enable readers to search through ACC police department's daily crime log.
To utilize the database, users can search by type of offense, campus and/or disposition to learn about campus crimes.
The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act or Clery Act is a federal law requiring that all colleges and universities that participate in federal financial aid programs to keep and disclose information about crime on and near their respective campuses.
Compliance is monitored by the United States Department of Education which can impose civil penalties, up to $27,500 per violation, against institutions for each infraction and can suspend institutions from participating in federal student financial aid programs.
Under the Clery Act, Austin Community College's police department is required to maintain a public log of all crimes reported to them, or those of which they are made aware.
According to Security On Campus, any institution that has a campus police department or security office, regardless of size, must create, maintain and make available a daily crime log.
Security On Campus is a national non-profit organization that focuses on prevention of criminal violence at colleges and universities nationwide through educational, awareness, and policy initiatives.
Information provided in the crime log must include the nature of the crime, the date the crime was reported and the time and date when it occurred, the general location of the crime and the disposition of the complaint, if known. Additionally, crime log entries include all crimes reported to the campus police or security department, not just Clery Act crimes.
For a direct link to ACC Police Department's Daily Crime Log, click here: http://www.austincc.edu/police/crime/reports.htm
For more information about the Clery Act visit: http://www.securityoncampus.org/pdf/handbook.pdf
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