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Clery Timely Warning — Sexual Assault | 11-2-2024
The ASU Police Department received a report of a sexual assault which occurred on November 2, 2024 in the early morning hours at 975 S. Rural Road on the Tempe campus. The victim, who is not affiliated with the university, said a male she met at an off-campus party may have drugged her by slipping something in her drink. The victim woke up later on campus and believes she was sexually assaulted. This case is under investigation.
ASU's CTW (Clery Timely Warning) archive is one of the most disciplined in higher education — every alert gets a permanent, dated URL slug in the format /ctw-[crime-type]-[date]
The victim 'is not affiliated with the university' — Clery's geographic jurisdiction means the alert is required even though the survivor isn't a student or employee
975 S. Rural Road is the [Tooker House / Rural Road residential complex](https://eoss.asu.edu/housing/communities) on Tempe campus — disclosing the address (rather than the building name) is unusually specific
'A male she met at an off-campus party may have drugged her' frames the drugging vector as social-network-rather-than-stranger — a pattern the literature labels 'targeted incapacitation'
Issued in November 2024 — months after ASU was [found in 'serious violation' of the Clery Act](https://www.12news.com/article/news/crime/asu-found-in-serious-violation-of-the-clery-act-us-dept-of-education-strongly-recommends-reevaluate-safety-policies-and-procedures/75-66ceeb3a-483b-47e8-aa3f-2b474329ba08) by the Department of Education — an institutional context that may explain the alert's prompt issuance
Drug-facilitated sexual assault on the Tempe campus is one of [several Sept-Nov 2024 sexual-assault CTWs](https://cfo.asu.edu/clery-timely-warning) — including a [9-12-24 alert](https://cfo.asu.edu/ctw-sexual-assault-9-12-24)