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2023 crime statistics reports released

Editor’s Note—The information in this story may be triggering for members of the campus community who have experienced dating violence.  The University of Utah released two major safety reports this week—an accounting of overall campus crime and fire statistics required by federal law and a housing-specific analysis dictated by state law. Under the Clery Act, […]

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2nd Annual Utah Campus Safety Summit

This month we held the 2nd Annual Utah Campus Safety Summit. This event was launched last year to provide a platform for stakeholders working on school safety issues to share information, ideas, and best practices. Proactively preventing harm Our responsibility to keep all members of our educational communities safe has never been more challenging, as […]

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Cyber kidnapping warning

In light of a recent “cyber kidnapping” in Utah involving a 17-year-old foreign exchange student from China, the University of Utah Department of Public Safety cautions all campus community members, especially international students, to be mindful of these types of scams.  In a cyber or virtual kidnapping scam, the perpetrator convinces a person their family […]

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