Steven J. HealyMargolis Healy & Associates

Meeting of the MindsApril 3, 2014

Comprehensive Safety Planning – A Holistic Approach to Campus Safety & Security

Steven J. HealyDr. Gene Deisinger

Risks Facing Colleges & Universities

• Natural Disasters• Sexual and Gender Violence• Child Sexual Assault• Hazing & Bullying• Alcohol Related Injuries and Deaths• Suicide• Targeted Violence• Regulatory Review

A Holistic Approach

1. Eliminate Stovepipes and create a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to campus safety and security

Integration of Processes

Comprehensive Safety PlanningPro-active plans in place to:

Prevent and mitigate violence • Identify at-risk situations• Assess situations• Intervene & manage concerns

Prepare for potential violence

Respond to violent acts and

Recover from the event.

A Holistic Approach

1. Eliminate Stovepipes and create a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to campus safety and security

– Emergency Management Team– Sexual Assault Response Team/TIX Team– Violence Prevention Committee– Threat Assessment/Workplace Violence Team– Alcohol & Other Drug Task Force

A Holistic Approach

2. Engage in meaningful Hazard and Vulnerability Analysis• Determine likely human, technological & natural

loss events • Determine the probability of those events

occurring• Assess impact: human, structural, institution• Determine level of preparedness, unmitigated

risk to establish Relative Risk Score

Hazard Vulnerability Analysis

Emergency Planning

http://rems.ed.gov/EOPGuides.aspx

Available at:

rems.ed.gov/EOPGuidesReleased: 6/18/13

Informed by Research & Practice

A Holistic Approach

3. Leverage technology to enhance preparedness • Mass Notification Systems• Security Technology• Situational Awareness• Social Media and Mobile Apps

A Holistic Approach

3. Leverage technology to enhance preparedness

A Holistic Approach

Security Technology • Access Control System• Security Cameras• License Plate Readers• Personal Safety Devices• ??

A Holistic Approach

4. Enhance Prevention - Enforce Policies• Title IX & Clery Act• Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management

A Holistic Approach

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX), 20 U.S.C. §§ 1681 et seq., prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs or activities operated by recipients of Federal financial assistance

Defining Sexual Harassment

• Unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature

- includes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal, nonverbal, or physical conduct of a sexual nature, including sexual violence.

• Student-to-student harassment:

- creates hostile environment if conduct is sufficiently serious that it interferes with or limits a student’s ability to participate in or benefit from the school’s program.

• The more severe the conduct, the less need there is to show a repetitive series of incidents to prove hostile environment, particularly if the harassment is physical (e.g. rape=hostile environment)

Defining Sexual Violence

• Sexual violence is a form of sexual harassment prohibited by Title IX.- Sexual violence refers to physical sexual acts perpetrated

against a person’s will or where a person is incapable of giving consent due to the victim’s use of drugs or alcohol

- An individual also may be unable to give consent due to an intellectual or other disability

- May include rape, sexual assault, sexual battery, and sexual coercion

Scope of Coverage

• Title IX protects your students and employees from sexual harassment in an institution’s education programs and activities, including:

- All academic, educational, extracurricular, athletic, and other programs of the institution

- On-campus, off-campus, in transit, sponsored at other locations, etc.

Overview of Mandates

• Notice of Non-discrimination

• Title IX Coordinator

• Grievance Procedures

- Prompt and equitable

- Notice

- Adequate, reliable, and impartial investigation of complaints

- Designated and reasonably prompt time frames

- Notice of outcome19

Overview of Mandates

• Education and Prevention

• Remedies and Enforcement

• Training

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What is this thing called “Clery?”

• A consumer rights bill• An institutional responsibility

–Not JUST campus public safety• Campus-wide collaboration and cooperation

CRITICAL to success

Clery Act 101

• Publish & distribute an Annual Security Report w/various policy statements, policies and statistics (NLT October 1, each year) (approx. 23 policies)

• Inform prospective students & employees about the Annual Security Report

• Submit crime statistics to U.S. Dept. of Education• Provide timely notice and emergency notifications• Maintain a public, daily log of reported crimes

Campus SaVE• Part of VAWA Reauthorization Act• Amends HEA “to improve education and

prevention related to campus sexual violence, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking”

• Codifies much of 2011 OCR DCL• Effective March 2014 (good faith effort NOW)

Threat Assessment

1• IDENTIFY situations/persons of concern

2• INVESTIGATE & gather information

3• ASSESS situation

4• MANAGE the situation/mitigate risk

A systematic process that is designed to:

Having a Team is Not EnoughOrganizations must have a systematic process that: Utilizes effective & relevant multi-disciplinary approach; Enables centralized awareness of developing concerns

through active outreach programs & consultations; Capable of addressing all threats & hazards;

Facilitates a thorough & contextual assessment; Implements proactive & integrated case management; Monitors & re-assesses case on a longitudinal basis; Conducts all practices in accordance with relevant laws,

policies, and standards of practice; Adapts to challenges & changing needs.

© G. Deisinger, Ph.D. & M. Randazzo, Ph.D.

www.threatassessment.vt.edu

Threat Assessment Process

ContextualAssessment

IdentifyPotential

Risk

IntegratedManagement

Plan

ImplementPlan

Post-IncidentRecovery

GatherInformation

NotifyTAM Team

A Holistic Approach

4. Enhance Prevention and Enforce Policies • Title IX & Clery Act• Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management• Minors on Campus & Child Sexual Abuse• Safety Awareness and Readiness

A Holistic Approach

5. Create a Chief Safety Officer position• Reporting directly to the institution’s President• Leads all safety and security initiatives• Has equal standing w/other senior

administrators• Increases focus on safety, security, and readiness

A Holistic Approach

1. Eliminate Stovepipes – embrace multidisciplinary approach

2. HVA – meaningful hazard identification3. Leverage Technology – use it wisely4. Enhance Prevention & Enforce Policies 5. Create Chief Safety & Security Officer

Contact Information

Major Gene Deisinger, Ph.D.

Deputy Chief of Police &Director of Threat Management Services

Virginia Tech Police Department(540) 231-4788erdeisin@vt.edu

Steven J. HealyManaging Partner

www.margolishealy.com866-817-5817

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