In 1991, the U.S. Congress passed the Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act, which requires colleges to report the three previous years of statistics on murder, sex offenses, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, and motor vehicle theft, and statistics on arrests for drug and alcohol violations and weapons violations.In October 1998, President Clinton signed an amendment renaming the act the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act and requiring that all crimes motivated by hate or bias be included in the statistics.The amendment also calls for further breakdowns of 13 criminal offenses into four categories by location:
- campus,
- residential facilities on campus,
- university-owned property away from main campus or property controlled by university-recognized student groups,
- public property around campus.
All of the required statistics are included except for crimes occurring on property controlled by student groups and on public property around campus. The Lawrence Police Department was unable to provide the university with those statistics. The Dean of Students Office coordinates the collection of data that is not reported to the Office of Public Safety, but is reported to offices such as student housing or student life offices.
The amendment also called for publicly accessible daily logs of all crimes reported on campuses. Since 1998, a daily log has been available in the KU Public Safety Office in room 302 at Carruth-OLeary Hall and on the department's Web site at
www.ku.edu/~kucops.
KU uses the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). Under this system, the statistics reflect every criminal offense that occurred in each incident. Visitors, faculty and staff, students, and the state of Kansas are among the victims categorized in police statistics.
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