Virginia Tech Paid $32,500 in Clery Act Penalties Over Response to Shootings

April 17, 2014
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Virginia Tech has paid $32,500 in fines that the U.S. Department of Education imposed for campus-safety violations in the university's response to the 2007 mass shooting on its campus, the university confirmed on Wednesday.

The department levied two fines against Virginia Tech for violations of the federal campus safety law known as the Clery Act. The first, $27,500, was for failing to issue a timely warning after the first of two shootings there, and the second, $5,000, was for misstating its timely-warning policy in an annual security report.

Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/virginia-tech-paid-32500-in-clery-act-penalties-over-response-to-shootings/76035