The electronic personal security industry is relatively new, and Secure System, Inc. is among very few companies dedicated to this new and exciting technology. Colleges and university campuses were among the first beneficiaries of the technology, for good reason.

In each year between 1995 and 2000, approximately 7.7 million people aged 18 to 24 attended a college or university full- or part-time. During that period, nearly 526,000 students were victims of violent crime each year—crimes which included rape and sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault and simple assault. Approximately 128,100 crimes per year involved a weapon or resulted in serious injury to the victim.

The Student Right-To-Know and Campus Security Act (Public Law 101-542) was passed and signed into law by President George H. Bush in 1990. Title II of this act is known as the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990, and it has since been amended several times (National Center of Educational Statistics, 1997). The most recent version of this law was passed by Congress as part of the Higher Education Amendments Act of 1998. Its official title under this Act is the "Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act" (Public Law 105-244).

Current regulations call for institutions to annually distribute the security report defined by the Act to all current students and employees and to provide a summary of the report to any applicant for enrollment or employment upon request (Federal Register, 1992). The purpose of the legislation is largely two-fold: first, it requires institutions to report specific crime statistics, open their criminal activity logs and share information about their crime-prevention programs with prospective students and their parents so they can factor campus safety into their decision about college choice; second, it increases campus security awareness among students, faculty, staff and others so they can make informed decisions about their personal security.

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