Crime Reporting & Statistics

The SUNY Geneseo Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (ASR) contains a wealth of information to inform the community about campus security policies, programs to prevent and respond to crime and emergencies, and the occurrence of crime. 

The ASR also contains information regarding campus security, personal safety and fire safety. Topics such as the structure and role of the University Police Department, emergencies/crimes, sexual assault, residence hall security, personal responsibility, drug and alcohol policy, fire safety policy, fire statistics and how to access registered sex offender information are discussed in the narrative portions of this report. 

Printed copies of the ASR are available at the University Police Department located in Schrader Hall Room 19. Information can also be obtained from the U.S. Department of Education. 

Access the most recent Annual Security and Fire Safety Report here.

• There were zero (0) hate crimes reported in 2021.
• There were zero (0) hate crimes reported in 2022.
• There were zero (0) hate crimes reported in 2023.

Clery Crime Reporting Form

Individuals with responsibility for reviewing Clery crime reports will determine the specific crime being reported according to the following guidelines. We share these guidelines with you so you have a general sense of Clery Act crime classifications when you are completing a Clery Act Crime Incident Report. It’s important you include the date, time, location and nature of the crime reported to you.

The definitions for murder, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, weapon law violations, drug abuse violations and liquor law violations are excerpted from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI’s) Uniform Crime Reporting Handbook (UCR). Hate crimes are classified according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Hate Crime Data Collection Guidelines and Training Guide for Hate Crime Data Collection. The definitions of sex offenses (unless otherwise stated), dating violence, domestic violence, and stalking are excerpted from the Violence Against Women Act.

Murder and non-negligent manslaughter: The willful (non-negligent) killing of one human being by another

Negligent manslaughter: The killing of another person through gross negligence. (Gross negligence is the intentional failure to perform a manifest duty in reckless disregard of the consequences as affecting the life or property of another.)

Sex offenses: Any sexual act directed against another person, without the consent of the victim, including instances where the victim is incapable of giving consent.

Clery Act sex offenses include:

1. Rape is the penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.
2. Fondling (“Forcible Touching” in the NYS Penal Law) is the touching of the private body parts of another person for the purpose of sexual gratification, without the consent of the victim, including instances where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her age or because of his/her temporary or permanent mental incapacity.
3. Incest is sexual intercourse between persons who are related to each other within degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.
4. Statutory Rape is sexual intercourse with a person who is under the statutory age of consent.

Robbery: The taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody, or control of a person or persons by force or threat of force or violence and/or by putting the victim in fear.

Aggravated assault: An unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury. This type of assault usually is accompanied by the use of a weapon or by means likely to produce death or great bodily harm.

(It is not necessary that injury result from an aggravated assault when a gun, knife, or other weapon is used which could and probably would result in serious personal injury if the crime were successfully completed.)

Burglary: The unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or a theft. (For reporting purposes, this definition includes: unlawful entry with intent to commit a larceny or felony; breaking and entering with intent to commit a larceny; housebreaking; safecracking; and all attempts to commit any of the aforementioned.)

Motor vehicle theft: The theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle. Classify as motor vehicle theft: Theft of any self-propelled vehicle that runs on land surface and not on rails, such as sport utility vehicles, automobiles, trucks, buses, motorcycles, motor scooters, trail bikes, mopeds, all-terrain vehicles, self-propelled motor homes, snowmobiles, golf carts and motorized wheelchairs. All cases where automobiles are taken by persons not having lawful access even though the vehicles are later abandoned, including joyriding.

Arson: Any willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, personal property of another, etc.

Hate Crimes: A hate crime is a criminal offense that manifests evidence that the victim was intentionally selected because of the perpetrator’s bias against the victim. Bias is a preformed negative opinion or attitude toward a group of persons based on their race, gender, gender identity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or national origin. Although there are many possible categories of bias, under Clery, only the following eight categories are reported:

1. Race: A preformed negative attitude toward a group of persons who possess common physical characteristics (e.g., color of skin, eyes, and/or hair; facial features, etc.) genetically transmitted by descent and heredity, which distinguish them as a distinct division of humankind (e.g., Asians, blacks or African Americans, whites).
2. Religion: A preformed negative opinion or attitude toward a group of persons who share the same religious beliefs regarding the origin and purpose of the universe and the existence or nonexistence of a supreme being (e.g., Catholics, Jews, Protestants, atheists).
3. Sexual Orientation: A preformed negative opinion or attitude toward a group of persons based on their actual or perceived sexual orientation.
4. Gender: A preformed negative opinion or attitude toward a person or group of persons based on their actual or perceived gender, e.g., male or female.
5. Gender Identity: A preformed negative opinion or attitude toward a person or group of persons based on their actual or perceived gender identity, e.g., bias against transgender or gender non-conforming individuals.
6. Ethnicity: A preformed negative opinion or attitude toward a group of people whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage, often consisting of a common language, common culture (often including a shared religion) and/or ideology that stresses common ancestry.
7. National Origin: A preformed negative opinion or attitude toward a group of people based on their actual or perceived country of birth.
8. Disability: A preformed negative opinion or attitude toward a group of persons based on their physical or mental impairments, whether such disability is temporary or permanent, congenital or acquired by heredity, accident, injury, advanced age or illness.

For Clery purposes, hate crimes include the previously listed offenses as well as the following offenses should they include an element of bias/hate:

Larceny-theft: The unlawful taking, carrying, leading, or riding away of property from the possession or constructive possession of another. Constructive possession is the condition in which a person does not have physical custody or possession, but is in a position to exercise dominion or control over a thing.

Simple assault: An unlawful physical attack by one person upon another where neither the offender displays a weapon, nor the victim suffers obvious severe or aggravated bodily injury involving apparent broken bones, loss of teeth, possible internal injury, severe laceration, or loss of consciousness.

Intimidation: To unlawfully place another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words and/or other conduct, but without displaying a weapon or subjecting the victim to actual physical attack. (To be the victim of intimidation, one does not have to be the intended target of the offender.)

Destruction/damage/vandalism of property: To willfully or maliciously destroy, damage, deface, or otherwise injure real or personal property without the consent of the owner or the person having custody or control of it.

Dating Violence, Domestic Violence & Stalking

• The term “dating violence” is defined as violence committed by a person who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim. The existence of such a relationship shall be determined based on the reporting party’s statement and with consideration of the length of the relationship, the type of relationship, and the frequency of interaction between the persons involved in the relationship. For the purposes of this definition:
  • Dating violence includes, but is not limited to, sexual or physical abuse or the threat of such abuse.
  • Dating violence does not include acts covered under the definition of domestic violence.
• The term “domestic violence” includes felony or misdemeanor crimes of violence committed by a current or former spouse or intimate partner of the victim, by a person with whom the victim shares a child in common, by a person who is cohabitating with or has cohabitated with the victim as a spouse or intimate partner, by a person similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under the domestic or family violence laws of the State of New York, or by any other person against an adult or youth victim who is protected from that person’s acts under the domestic or family violence laws of the State of New York.
• The term “stalking” means engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to — (a) fear for his or her safety or the safety of others; or (b) suffer substantial emotional distress. (The term course of conduct means two or more acts by which the stalker directly, indirectly, or through third parties follows, monitors, observes, surveils, threatens, or communicates to or about a person or interferes with his or her property)

Law Violations

In addition to disclosing statistics for the aforementioned offenses, the Clery Act requires institutions to disclose violations of the law resulting in arrests or persons being referred for disciplinary action in the following categories:

Weapons: Carrying, Possessing, Etc.

The violation of laws or ordinances prohibiting the manufacture, sale, purchase, transportation, possession, concealment, or use of firearms, cutting instruments, explosives, incendiary devices or other deadly weapons. This classification encompasses weapons offenses that are regulatory in nature.

Include in this classification: manufacture, sale, or possession of deadly weapons; carrying deadly weapons, concealed or openly; using manufacturing, etc., of silencers; furnishing deadly weapons to minors; aliens possessing deadly weapons; and attempts to commit any of the above.

“Deadly weapon” means any loaded weapon from which a shot, readily capable of producing death or other serious physical injury, may be discharged, or a switchblade knife, gravity knife, pilum ballistic knife, metal knuckle knife, dagger, billy, blackjack, plastic knuckles, or metal knuckles, as defined by the Penal Law of the State of New York.

Drug Law Violations

The violation of laws prohibiting the production, distribution and/or use of certain controlled substances and the equipment or devices utilized in their preparation and/or use. The unlawful cultivation, manufacture, distribution, sale, purchase, use, possession, transportation or importation of any controlled drug or narcotic substance. Arrests for violations of state and local laws, specifically those relating to the unlawful possession, sale, use, growing, manufacturing and making of narcotic drugs.

Liquor Law Violations

The violation of state or local laws or ordinances prohibiting the manufacture, sale, purchase, transportation, possession, or use of alcoholic beverages, not including driving under the influence and drunkenness.

Include in this classification: the manufacture, sale, transporting, furnishing, possessing, etc., of intoxicating liquor; maintaining unlawful drinking places; bootlegging; operating a still; furnishing liquor to a minor or intemperate person; underage possession; using a vehicle for illegal transportation of liquor; drinking on train or public conveyance; and attempts to commit any of the above.

On-campus locations include the main campus property and buildings.

• On-campus residential facilities: Stueben Hall, Jones Hall, Erie Hall, Seneca Hall, Ontario Hall, Genesee Hall, Wyoming Hall, Putnam Hall, Allegany Hall, Livingston Hall, Monroe Hall, Saratoga Terrace, Onondaga Hall, Niagara Hall, Wayne Hall, Nassau Hall, Suffolk Hall
• On-campus non-residential facilities: Bailey Hall, Brodie Hall, Newton Hall, Integrated Science Center, Milne Library, Blake Hall, Erwin Hall, Wadsworth Auditorium, Welles Hall, Doty Hall, Sturges Hall, Fraser Hall, South Hall, MacVittie College Union, Heating Plant, Clark Services, Schrader Hall, eGarden, Merritt Athletic Center, College Stadium, Lauderdale Health Center, Letchworth Dining Hall, Mary Jemison Dining Hall, Saratoga Commons, Red Jacket Dining Hall, President's Residence, Campus House, Roemer Arboretum

Non-campus locations include property owned by student organizations officially recognized by the College and property owned by the College used in direct support of, or in relation to, the College's educational purposes, is frequently used by students and is not within the same reasonable contiguous geographic area of the College. 

• Non-campus locations used for educational purposes: Letchworth State Park Nature Center

Public property locations include thoroughfares, streets, sidewalks, parking facilities and public park settings immediately adjacent to and accessible from campus.

Clery Handbook for Campus Safety & Security Reporting, 2016 Edition