Campus Safety & Security
The Ohio Board of Regents Office of Campus Safety and Security assists public and private Ohio institutions of higher education in their efforts to ensure the safety, welfare and security of their students, faculty, staff, visitors and property.
The Office develops, promotes and supports safety awareness, emergency response and communications plans, both within the campus and with the local community. It also ensures that safety and security prevention efforts are implemented and that mental health services are available on all campuses.
Responsibilities
- Conduct annual safety and security summits for the state
- Secure grant funding for campus safety (currently over $500,000)
- Utilize federal preparedness funds, conducting readiness exercises on campus
- Review campus safety plans annually
- National model for new Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence and Stalking program
- Collaborated with the Department of Homeland Security to place campus assets in DHS’s ACAMS
- Recognized by the Ohio Supreme Court for its efforts to get Crisis Intervention Team training to university law enforcement
- National model for new “Campus Psychological First Aid” program
- Provided 22 campuses with statewide interoperable communications radios
- Florida - Gubernatorial Task Force for University Campus Safety
- Kentucky - Governor's Task Force in Campus Safety
- Missouri - Securing Our Future: Making Colleges & Universities Safe Places to Learn & Grow
- New Jersey - Campus Security Task Force Report
- Oklahoma - Report coming soon
- Wisconsin - Governor's Task Force on Campus Safety Interim Report
- National Association of Attorneys General Task Force on School & Campus Safety
- FERPA and Campus Safety Q and A
- Virginia Tech 1 Year Later: How Campuses Have Responded
- Report of the Virginia Tech Review Panel, August 31, 2007
- Building a Disaster-Resistant University - FEMA
- Report to the President on Issues Raised by the Virginia Tech Tragedy, June 13, 2007
- Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium, May 28, 2007, Campus Safety Magazine
- Testimony of Dr. James C. Renick, Senior Vice President for Program and Research at the American Council on Education to the House Committee on Homeland Security, May 17, 2007
- National Summit on Campus Public Safety - Strategies for Colleges and Universities in a Homeland Security Environment, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services
- Comprehensive School Safety and Security Assessment, University of Findlay, School of Environment and Emergency Management
- Association for Student Judicial Affairs Law & Policy Report
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Government Affairs Hearing, April 23, Briefing Notes
- Security on Campus, Inc.
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Government Affairs
- Questions campus leaders should ask about security and emergency preparedness
- National School Safety and Security Services
- Virginia Youth Violence Project: Effective Methods for Youth Violence, Prevention and School Safety
- Students for Concealed Carry on Campus
- The University of Akron Police
- Bowling Green State University Public Safety
- Central State University Police
- University of Cincinnati Police
- Cleveland State University Police
- Kent State University Police
- Miami University Police
- Ohio State University Department of Public Safety
- Ohio University Police
- Shawnee State University Security and Safety
- University of Toledo Police
- Wright State University Police
- Youngstown State university Police
Accomplishments
A Safer Campus
A guidebook on prevention and response to sexual and intimate partner violence and stalking for Ohio campuses. The SIPVS Task Force (the "Task Force") emerging in 2008 as a focus of the Ohio Board of Regents Task Force on Ohio College Campus Safety and Security. Specifically, the Task Force was formed to raise awareness of daily acts of violence on Ohio's campuses–intimate partner voilence, sexual violence and stalking. The Task Force consisted of key partners including campus administrators, faculty and academic leaders, student representatives, campus law enforcement and security, member of the community-based organizations, and other members of campus life, such as student services personnel, resident advisors and resident life staff, and Women's Centers employees.
Addressing Campus Behavioral Health and Wellness through Crisis Prevention, Response and Collaboration
Task Force Reports from States and Associations
Papers, Reports, Articles & Testimony
Related Websites
Suggested Reading
Contact
Rick Amweg
Director, Campus Safety & Security
Ohio Board of Regents
30 East Broad Street 36th Floor
Columbus, Ohio 43215-3414
Phone: 614-728-5717
FAX: 614-466-5866
Email: ramweg@regents.state.oh.us