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Education Department Opens Clery Act Review of Brown After Deadly Campus Shooting

The federal inquiry focuses on whether Brown met Clery Act duties for timely warnings and security reporting, with records due by late January.

Visitors pause at a makeshift memorial for the shooting victims at the Van Wickle Gate at Brown University on December 15.
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.
Brown University President Christina Paxson leaves a news conference about the shooting on December 14.

Overview

  • The Department of Education requested Brown’s recent annual security reports, police and crime logs, and policies on emergency notifications as part of the review.
  • Brown placed its vice president for public safety, Rodney Chatman, on administrative leave and named former Providence police chief Hugh T. Clements as interim while an external after-action review proceeds.
  • Investigators and affidavits highlight limited camera coverage in the Barus & Holley building, noting only two exterior cameras and no coverage of room 166 where the shooting occurred.
  • Officials say the first campus alert went out at 4:22 p.m., about 17 minutes after the first 911 call, and sirens were not used to avoid drawing people into buildings.
  • The December 13 attack killed two students and wounded nine; the suspect, former Brown student Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot and was linked to an MIT professor’s killing.