Federal law requires colleges and universities to annually report their crime statistics, security policies and programs for safeguarding the campus community. Some details about the law, the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Statistics Act.

* Howard and Connie Clery became national advocates after their daughter, Jeanne, was murdered at Lehigh University in 1986. Congress enacted the law in 1990 as the Campus Security Act and revised it in 1998.

* Each school must disclose crime statistics for the campus, public areas immediately adjacent to or running through the campus and certain non-campus facilities, including fraternity and sorority housing and remote classrooms. Campus police or security, local law enforcement and other school officials who have “significant responsibility for student and campus activities” must all report crime statistics. Professional mental health and religious counselors are exempt from reporting, but they may report to a confidential system.

*Schools must report crimes in nine major categories: homicide, manslaughter, forcible and non-forcible sex offenses, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft and arson.

*Crimes motivated by a victim’s race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity or disability must also be categorized as “hate crimes.”

*Authorities must disclose liquor violations, drug violations and illegal weapons possession that result in arrest or discipline.

* Statistics must be categorized geographically as “on campus,” “residential facilities for students on campus,” non-campus buildings or “on public property” such as streets and sidewalks.

* Schools with police or security departments must within two business days record in a public crime log any crime that occurs within their jurisdiction or is reported to them, along with the “nature, date, time, and general location of each crime” as well as its disposition, if known. Sensitive information, such as the names of sexual assault victims or minors, may be withheld.

* The log must be publicly available during normal business hours, remain available for 60 days and subsequently be made available within two business days of a request.