Overview
- Classes resumed with increased police presence, campuswide card-access controls, additional cameras and blue-light phones, and closures of affected spaces in the Barus & Holley building.
- Brown placed its public safety chief on leave and installed a former Providence police chief as interim leader while expanding panic buttons, boosting camera coverage, and doubling officers per shift.
- The university is running two outside reviews that examine campus security and the Dec. 13 response, with a commitment to publish the findings when they are complete.
- Providence advanced a third-party review of the response, extended visible security around the campus area, and is opening a resiliency center to provide mental-health support.
- Federal scrutiny continues as the Education Department conducts a Clery Act review after publicly criticizing Brown’s alerts and surveillance, and a Justice Department transcript indicates the suspect planned the attack.