Clery Act Compliance

The Annual Security & Annual Fire Safety Reports provide useful information such as crime statistics for the prior three years, safety tips, policy statements regarding safety and security issues, safety resources, crime prevention program descriptions, and procedures to be followed in the investigation and prosecution of alleged sex offenses.

The Daily Crime and Fire Log lists all crimes and fires reported daily to DPSS.

Crime Alerts are timely warnings of crimes that may present a threat to the safety of students, faculty or staff.

In order to evaluate the need for an emergency or crime alert, all CSA and IRO reports completed are reviewed by Clery compliance personnel, Equity, Civil Rights, and Title IX Office (ECRT), and DPSS Special Victims Unit (SVU).

The victim’s name will not be publicly released by the university.

Emergency Alerts are an urgent, mass notification system that gives students, faculty and staff warnings about major active emergencies on campus.

CSAs are school officials with significant responsibility for student activities or who have the authority to take action or respond to an issue; therefore, they are required to report certain incidents to DPSS as mandated by the Clery Act.

CSAs include:

• All employees within the Division of Public Safety and Security (DPSS)
• Michigan Housing staff
• Equity, Civil Rights, and Title IX Office staff
• Student Life staff
• Athletics coaches, coaching assistants, and staff
• Office of Student Conflict Resolution staff
• University deans, directors, chiefs, and department heads (this includes assistant and associate roles)
• Monitors
• Senior human resource directors of Staff HR Services, Academic Human Resources and Michigan Medicine Labor Relations
• Librarians
• Advisors to recognized student-sponsored organizations
• Employees involved with minors in research
• Employees involved with the Children on Campus programs

CSAs are required to complete the mandatory online training course—this will take approximately 10 to 15 minutes.

If you are a CSA and need to report Clery-reportable crimes or disciplinary referrals:

• Call 911 if it is an emergency
• Call DPSS at 734-763-1131
• Promptly complete an online CSA report form

Under the university's Sexual and Gender-Based Misconduct Policy, many members of the U-M community in certain roles are also considered required reporters and are required to share information about suspected sexual misconduct with the Equity, Civil Rights & Title IX Office (ECRT).

The following roles are required reporters:

Faculty & Staff Roles

Faculty and staff with jobs in the following divisions & departments are required reporters:

• Academic and staff supervisors who have the authority to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, reward, or discipline other employees (ex: You are a faculty member who oversees a GSRA/GSI or a staff manager)
• Athletic staff members (excluding clerical, custodial, maintenance and dining employees)
• Board of Regents members
• Chancellors (including Vice, Associate, or Assistant Chancellors)
• Deans (including Vice, Associate, or Assistant Deans)
• Department Chairs (including Associate or Assistant Department Chair)
• Division of Public Safety staff members (excluding clerical, custodial, and maintenance employees)
• Faculty and staff members
  • Who provide direct oversight of university-related travel abroad experiences for students
  • Who accompany students on university-related travel
  • Who serve as identified advisors to Student Organizations required by their campus to have a named faculty or staff advisor
• ECRT staff (excluding clerical employees, interns and student staff)
• Executive Officers (including Associate or Assistant Executive Officers)
• Graduate Chair
• Human Resources staff members handling employment matters (not clerical or transactional)
• President
• Professional staff in Student Life/Affairs who are responsible for discipline/sanctions/remedies in nonacademic matters
• Undergraduate Chair
• Vice Provosts

Student Employees

Student employees with jobs in the following divisions & departments are required reporters:

• Athletics
• Safety and security departments:
  • The Division of Public Safety & Security (DPSS)
  • UM-Dearborn Department of Public Safety Service (DPS)
  • UM-Flint Department of Public Safety Service (DPS)
• Michigan Housing
• Human Resources
• Student Life/Student Affairs

The University of Michigan is committed to providing safe ways for all community members to report discrimination and misconduct to the Equity, Civil Rights, and Title IX Office (ECRT).