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Verified verbatimPenn State Timely Warnings (timelywarnings.psu.edu) — Berks campus, case 24BK00086897 chars
Stalking - VAWA has occurred at Berks
Case Number: 24BK00086
University Police received a report of stalking on March 27, 2024. The reported incident occurred between 8:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. on March 27, 2024 at an unknown location on the Berks Campus. The victim, a student, reported that a known person has been involved in stalking behavior including unwanted communications and physical contact.
It can be assumed that conditions continue to exist that may pose a threat to members and guests of the University community.
This warning is being issued in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act and the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (VAWA).
Members of the campus community are urged to use caution. Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact Penn State University Police at (610) 396-6111.
Penn State Berks is a small ~1,700-student commuter-heavy campus in Reading, PA — even small campuses have full Clery obligations
The incident-window format (8:00 AM to 3:30 PM on the same day) reflects a discrete reporting episode, though stalking is a course-of-conduct offense
The 'known person' framing is significant — most VAWA-covered stalking on campus involves someone known to the victim, in contrast with the public stranger-danger narrative
'Unwanted communications and physical contact' is unusually specific descriptive language for a Penn State warning; most Penn State warnings give little detail about the stalking course-of-conduct
The 'BK' campus prefix and 86th case-number suggest moderate police-report volume for the year at this branch campus
Penn State's standardized continuing-threat language ('It can be assumed that conditions continue to exist') is the bright-line trigger across all 24 campuses
The 'unknown location on the Berks Campus' phrasing is unusual — typically warnings cite a building; the vagueness suggests the cumulative course-of-conduct spans multiple locations