{"id":412,"date":"2024-09-12T17:50:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T17:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/caerm\/?page_id=412"},"modified":"2026-04-04T17:29:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:29:34","slug":"campus-safety-and-security","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/caerm\/campus-safety-and-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Safety and Security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MTSU&#8217;s University Police department provides safety and security for all campus employees, visitors, and community constituents.&nbsp; The University Police Department additionally provides community oriented policing services, as well as services to support victims of crimes.&nbsp; One such support service is the University Police&#8217;s Self-Defense training known as &#8220;Rape Aggression Defense Systems&#8221; or R.A.D. training.&nbsp; Additional information regarding the support services of MTSU&#8217;s University Police, including information on R.A.D. training can be found on their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/w1.mtsu.edu\/police\/RAD.php\">website.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MTSU also complies with the federal&nbsp;Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (&#8220;Clery Act&#8221;) and the Higher Education Opportunity Act (&#8220;HEOA&#8221;).&nbsp; Copies of MTSU&#8217;s Annual Security Reports, in compliance with the Clery Act and HEOA, can be found on the University Police Department&#8217;s website under&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/w1.mtsu.edu\/police\/annual-security-report.php\">&#8216;Crime Statistics.&#8217;<\/a>&nbsp; The University&#8217;s annual Fire Safety Report, as well as a Tennessee Bureau of Investigations Crime Report, also can be found on the University Police&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following are additional resources utilized by MTSU to ensure campus safety and security, including updated information concerning changes to the Department of Education&#8217;s 2016 Handbook on the Clery Act&#8217;s Campus Safety and Security reporting requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"is-style-compact-list wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ifap.ed.gov\/electronic-announcements\/100920RescissionReplace2016HandbookForCampusSafetySecurityReporting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. Department of Education,\u00a0<em>Rescission of and Replacement for the 2016 Handbook for Campus Safety and Security Reporting<\/em>, Federal Student Aid Office (Oct. 9, 2020).<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/caerm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/09\/DOE_Clery_Handbook_2016II.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. Department of Education, T<em>he Handbook for Campus Safety and Security Reporting &#8211; 2016 Edition<\/em>\u00a0(June 2016).<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTSU&#8217;s University Police department provides safety and security for all campus employees, visitors, and community constituents.&nbsp; The University Police Department additionally provides community oriented policing services, as well as services to support victims of crimes.&nbsp; One such support service is the University Police&#8217;s Self-Defense training known as &#8220;Rape Aggression Defense Systems&#8221; or R.A.D. training.&nbsp; Additional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-412","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/caerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/caerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/caerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/caerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/caerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/caerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/caerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/412\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/caerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}