Overview
- Interim public safety vice president Hugh T. Clements Jr. outlined plans to shift remaining key-entry buildings to card access, expand blue-light phones with cameras, add panic buttons, and install additional cameras including in Barus and Holley.
- Officers will staff buildings awaiting card-access upgrades, security staffing will increase through mutual-aid partners and private security, and a heightened presence will continue across academic and residential areas.
- New safety and active-shooter preparedness training will launch during the spring term, paired with expanded messaging on crime prevention and emergency management.
- Brown commissioned an external after-action review of the Dec. 13 attack and a separate campus-wide security assessment, while placing Police Chief Rodney Chatman on leave and appointing Clements as interim leader.
- The Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student Aid is reviewing whether Brown met federal campus-safety obligations tied to student aid as the university accelerates projects before the Jan. 21 semester start.