Over 400,000 data points, retrieved from years of compiled Clery Act data, have been mass-uploaded to our Title IX Lawsuits Database and are now viewable. This is our seventh major monthly database expansion, this time focusing heavily on school records. A breakdown of the expansion is below.

Crime Data

Among other things, the Clery Act requires schools to report crime statistics to the federal government. Although our database focuses on gender issues, we’re heading in a direction of compiling more thorough data on schools in general. Therefore, we have loaded all data for all offenses compiled and reported under the Clery Act for schools which have been on the receiving end of litigation by respondents to Title IX proceedings.

This includes statistics on arrests, general crime, school discipline, hate incidents, other Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) stats, and unfounded reports. We’ve included stats for these offenses regardless as to whether they occur on campus, off campus, on public property adjacent to school property, or in residence halls.

A few disclaimers should be made. Data for the 2018 school year is not yet available, but we will add it as soon as it is. In addition, prior to 2015 there were only two categories for sex offenses under Clery data collection: forcible (which encompasses rape and fondling), and nonforcible (which covers statutory rape and incest). For this reason, and for the ease of data presentation, we are only including Clery data from 2015 onward.

Enrollment Data

Although the Clery Act is known for crime statistics, Clery data also contain enrollment numbers. We’ve mass imported these data as well, so now each school record in our database will show enrollment numbers for men, women, and both combined.

School Classification Data

Previously, schools in our database were only classified by whether they were public or private. We’ve injected a bit more nuance here by tagging all our school records by whether they are two- or four-year institutions, as well as whether they are for- or non-profit. All school records can now be searched, sorted, and filtered by these data.

Where the Data Are Located

There are two main sections to find the data. To view all our Clery data, go to the Schools section of the sub-menu. This page now has three sections. The first two – an interactive map and a table of all schools in our database – were created when the database was relaunched last year. The table of schools now features several new fields: Male Enrollment, Female Enrollment, Total Enrollment, and Level.

Below this table of schools are five additional tables with all our Clery data. These data are sorted geographically in the following order:

1. On-campus offenses
2. Off-campus offenses
3. Residence hall offenses
4. Offenses on public property
5. Unfounded reports

The second place Clery data are found is in individual school “detail” pages. These are accessed by clicking on the name of a school in just about any section of the database where a school is listed. Alternatively, they are accessible by clicking the “view all data for this school” links in the Schools page.

Each School “detail” page now contains all new data relative to that school.

This is our seventh expansion since the 11/29/2018 relaunch. As a recap, here is a timeline of our previous expansions:

• May 2019 – oral arguments
• April 2019 – “save” feature for lawsuits & research notes implemented
• March 2019 – expansion of judge records, various user interface updates
• February 2019 – expansion of scope of lawsuits to include dating violence, stalking, exploitation, harassment, etc.
• January 2019 – expansion of court system records
• December 2018 – implementation of a changelog, database load speeds halved

Thank you for reading. If you aren’t signed up to our Title IX Lawsuits Database, we invite you to do so at this link.

Best,

The Title IX for All team