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Education Department Opens Clery Act Review of Brown After Campus Shooting

Education officials set a late-January deadline for Brown to turn over campus safety records.

A security guard walks past a flag at half-staff on the main green of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on December 18.
A woman lights a candle at a memorial set up in front of the Barus and Holley engineering building at Brown University on December 18.
Visitors pause at a makeshift memorial for the shooting victims at the Van Wickle Gate at Brown University on December 15.
Brown University President Christina Paxson leaves a news conference about the shooting on December 14.

Overview

  • The Office of Federal Student Aid launched a formal compliance review and requested Brown’s 2024–2025 annual security reports, police activity logs, daily crime logs, and policies on timely warnings and emergency notifications, with a response due by the end of January.
  • The department cited public accounts suggesting Brown’s surveillance system was inadequate and that emergency alerts were delayed, raising concerns about Clery requirements for timely warnings and campus security.
  • Brown announced an internal after-action review, convened a special commission, accelerated the installation of additional cameras, and placed public safety chief Rodney Chatman on leave while naming former Providence police chief Hugh T. Clements to lead public safety during the assessment.
  • Investigators reported the Barus & Holley building had only two exterior cameras and unlocked doors, leaving authorities to rely heavily on neighborhood video and public tips during the manhunt.
  • The federal review follows the Dec. 13 attack that killed two students and wounded nine; authorities identified former Brown student Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, who was later linked to an MIT professor’s killing and found dead by suicide in a New Hampshire storage unit.