In accordance with Pennsylvania’s Uniform Crime Reporting Act and College and University Security Regulations, crime on the seminary’s campus property or at the Bookstore’s leased location is reported to the Pennsylvania State Police. These statistics will be shared, upon request, with the Pennsylvania Department of Education and the Office of the Attorney General. Also, in accordance with the United States Campus Security Act of 1990 (Clery Act), the seminary collects crime statistics for the United States Department of Education.

Physical Plant has primary responsibility for the recording of crimes and providing updated information on crime statistics for this annual report.

State law requires that crime statistics be determined by dividing the number of crimes by full-time-equivalent students and employees. The following is a statement of all crime at the seminary’s campus property or the Bookstore’s leased location for the most recent three-year period:

Federal law (specifically, the Higher Education Opportunity Act) requires reporting of crime by type of crime and location of crime.

Crimes reported to campus security or local police: Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, negligent manslaughter, forcible and nonforcible sex offenses, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, and arson: 

Crimes listed above and larceny-theft, simple assault, intimidation, and destruction, damage, or vandalism of property, and any other crimes reported to campus security or local police involving bodily injury to any person in which the victim was intentionally selected because of the victim’s actual or perceived race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or disability:

Category of prejudice will be noted here for any crime data reported in table above. 

The number of arrests and persons referred for campus disciplinary action, for liquor law violations, drug law violations, and illegal weapons possession:

Westminster does not have policies or procedures regarding confidential crime reporting.

Westminster does not dictate procedures that encourage pastoral counselors and professional counselors to inform persons that they are counseling about procedures for confidential crime reporting (for inclusion in statistics). Westminster defers to counselor-client privilege and counselor responsibility to report crimes that legally must be reported.

Westminster does not have off-campus locations of student organizations officially recognized by the institution and so does not have policy concerning the monitoring and recording through local policy agencies of criminal activity. 

Other than the annual distribution of these reports, Westminster does not have programs designed to inform students and employees about the prevention of crimes.