The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act is a consumer protection law passed in 1990 that requires all colleges and universities that receive federal funding from the United States to share information about crime on campus and their efforts to improve campus safety.
The Clery Act requires institutions to inform the public of crime in or around campus. This information is made publicly accessible through the institution's annual security report (ASR). Colleges and universities must outline specific policies and procedures within their annual security report, including those related to disseminating timely warnings and emergency notifications, options for survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking and the campus crime reporting processes.
Crime statistics shared within the annual security report reflect the number of Clery-defined crimes reported to have occurred within Clery-defined geographic categories of an institution. SLU-Madrid's annual safety and security report is published by Oct. 1 of each year.
In conjunction with its publication, email notifications containing the web address of where to access this report are sent to all SLU-Madrid faculty, staff and students. Campus crime, arrest and student disciplinary referral statistics, and hate crime statistics are compiled from reports made to the persons identified by the Clery Act as "campus security authorities" (CSA).
CSA are defined by the Clery Act as persons associated with SLU-Madrid who have significant responsibility for student and campus activities, including, but not limited to, the Madrid Campus director and academic dean, the Office of Student Life director, advisors to students and student organizations, and academic division chairs. Letters are also sent to the local law enforcement agency requesting statistics for the Clery report; however, starting in 2014, the police agency no longer provides statistical data for a specific location. Instead, we are referred to a website that has general crime information for the entire Madrid community.
As required by the Jeanne Clery Disclosure Act, the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008, and the Violence Against Women's Act of 2013, the University must provide information to all community members on how to obtain a copy of Saint Louis University's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report for the Madrid Campus. This report includes statistics for the previous three years (2019-2020-2021) concerning reported crimes that occurred on campus (including the residential hall at El Faro where we had students residing from January 1, 2021, through May 31, 2021), non-campus property, and on public property within, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from the campus. The report also includes fire statistics, emergency notification procedures, and protocols for missing persons.
You can obtain a hard copy of this report by visiting the Office of Finance, located at Avenida del Valle, 28, by emailing finance-madrid@slu.edu, or phoning +34 91 554 5858, during normal business hours.