Why is it that most colleges actually publish the campus Clery reports online on a daily basis while others wait until the following year to publish the previous year’s reports. One school in particular that I considered requires you to go to campus police and stand around for an hour while they print out the report and then hand it to you. It seems to me that having online access to the campus crime reports would make it easier for out-of-state students to choose a school.
You mean this? http://ope.ed.gov/campussafety/#/
““It is really misguided to use sexual assault reports as rankings, because schools with higher rates are actually doing a better job of encouraging reporting and addressing the issue,” Laura Dunn, founder and executive director of the victims’ advocacy organization SurvJustice, said…Clery data should not be used as a tool for comparing or ranking institutions, said Mary P. Koss, a professor of public health at the University of Arizona and a pioneering researcher on the prevalence of campus sexual assault.”
Entire Article:
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/06/13/advocates-warn-against-ranking-colleges-handling-sexual-assault-based-clery-data
2 likely possibilities, not necessarily mutually exclusive:
- General administrative incompetence.
- They're required to release the info, but they're not required to make it easy. If they make it it hard or inconvenient to get the info, it's because they'd rather you didn't see it.