NOVEMBER 5, 2025 • VOLUME 96 • ISSUE 10
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Quinnipiac's annual security and fire safety report shows decrease in reported crime By AVA HIGHLAND News Editor
Quinnipiac University Department of Public Safety’s most recent annual security and fire safety report revealed a decrease in reported crime across several categories. The report details information from Jan. 1, 2024, to Dec. 31, 2024. The annual report is completed in compliance with the section 485(f) of the Higher Education Act — which is the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act — most often referred to as The Clery Act. The act was signed into law by former President George H.W. Bush in 1990 and is named for Jeanne Clery, a student at Lehigh University, who was raped and murdered at 18 years old in her dorm room in 1986, according to the Congressional Research Service’s “History of the Clery Act: Fact Sheet.”
The Clery Act requires “colleges and universities to report campus crime data, support victims of violence, and publicly outline the policies and procedures they have put into place to improve campus safety,” according to the Clery Center. It is also completed in compliance with the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 as well as in response to Connecticut General Statute Section 10a55 and Public Law. The report’s information reflects incidents that took place in “buildings owned or controlled by the institution and used for educational and institutional purposes, as well as public property within or immediately adjacent to and accessible to the campus,” according to Joe Dease, the Clery compliance officer and investigator. This includes educational and administrative facilities, residence halls, universi-
ty-owned or leased residential houses and apartments. However, a separate report is filed for Quinnipiac’s North Haven Campus. Here’s a breakdown of the report: The report includes data from the most recent three years for comparison, with the most recent report including information from 2022 to 2024. In 2024 there were no reported robberies, burglaries or motor vehicle thefts — this is the same as in 2022 and 2023. There were also no reported murders, rapes or aggravated assaults. The Violence Against Women Act offenses saw several decreases in reports. There were no reports of domestic violence for the third consecutive year and no reports of dating violence as compared to one in 2023. The report revealed a significant drop in reported stalkings from 2023 — dropping from five to zero in 2024.
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Chief of Public Safety Tony Reyes explained that there could be several reasons for the reported decreases, including Public Safety crime prevention methods. However, the lower numbers could also be a result of less reported crime, not necessarily an actual decrease in criminal acts committed. “So if we just happen to have less incidents of domestic violence or domestic related incidents that maybe there might not be a correlation to any efforts, so to speak, it just happened to be that there were less of those,” Reyes said. In regards to reporting crimes, Reyes noted that Public Safety works to ensure and promote that they are an “approachable resource.” “We want students to feel really comfortable in the process of reporting incidents,” Reyes said. See SAFETY Page 2
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