{
  "id": "2025-01-25-columbia-university-sexual-assault-sexual-harassment-medical-center-20",
  "slug": "columbia-university-sexual-assault-sexual-harassment-medical-center-20-2025-01-25",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Columbia University",
    "shortName": "Columbia",
    "state": "NY",
    "type": "private-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "Columbia Public Safety Clery Alerts",
    "enrollment": 33000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-01-25",
    "type": "sexual-assault",
    "cleryCategory": "timely-warning",
    "resolution": "under-investigation",
    "headline": "Clery crime alert for a sexual offense near campus",
    "headlinePublic": "Clery crime alert for a sexual offense near campus",
    "summary": "Columbia University Public Safety [issued a Clery crime alert PDF](https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/W04_Clery_Sexual_Harassment_Medical_Center_2025-01-07-2025-01-25.pdf) (archived [via Wayback](https://web.archive.org/web/20250804133624/https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/W04_Clery_Sexual_Harassment_Medical_Center_2025-01-07-2025-01-25.pdf)) regarding this incident. Full text is preserved from the official alert flyer.",
    "outcome": "See the Clery crime alert for investigation status and safety guidance.",
    "casualties": {
      "killed": 0,
      "injured": 0
    }
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "Published as Columbia Clery crime alert around 2025-01-25",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "Clery Crime Alert\nSexual Harassment\nThe Department of Public Safety has been informed of several Sexual Harassment incidents, committed by the same individual, targeting women near and within\nthe Medical Center Campus. These incidents span from January 7th, 2025 to January 25, 2025.\n\nIn these incidents, the subject has been reported to have followed, approached and even engaged in unwanted touching of several women. In an incident, which\noccurred on January 21st at approximately 12:35am, just off campus, the subject followed and touched the buttocks of an affiliate at 173rd street and Fort\nWashington Avenue. An NYPD report was filed for this incident.\n\nIf you have any additional information about any of these incidents, please contact the Department of Public Safety at 212-305-8100.\n\nThe suspect for these incidents is pictured used below.\n\nSafety Tips\n\n· Trust your instincts. If you feel that you may be in danger, seek out others, a store, or an open CU building that has Public Safety Officers posted. Remember\nto look for the Red Lion, the logo for the CU Public Safety Safe Haven program, which has screened more than 130 businesses near the Morningside,\nManhattanville, and Medical Center Campuses. For more information about the Safe Haven program, please click here.\n\n· Walk in groups whenever you can. There is always safety in numbers.\n\n· Be aware of your surroundings, especially when walking alone.\n\nDISCLAIMER: Clery Crime Alerts (Timely Warning Notifications) are distributed pursuant to the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus\nCrime Statistics Act. Columbia University is required to alert the campus community when certain crimes occur in our Clery Act defined campuses that represent a\nserious or continuous threat to the community.\n\nTo see this and other Clery Crime Alerts please visit our Public Safety website. For more information about Columbia University’s Clery Act compliance efforts,\nplease contact the Department’s Clery Act Compliance Director, Roberto A. Pineda Sanchez at rp3240@columbia.edu.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250804133624/https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/W04_Clery_Sexual_Harassment_Medical_Center_2025-01-07-2025-01-25.pdf",
      "sourceDescription": "Columbia Public Safety Clery crime alert PDF via Wayback Machine",
      "annotations": [
        "Full text extracted with pdftotext from official Clery alert PDF archived on Wayback",
        "Live publicsafety.columbia.edu currently returns Cloudflare 403 to automated fetch; Wayback holds the public PDF"
      ],
      "characterCount": 2057
    }
  ],
  "context": "On or about 2025-01-25, [Columbia University](https://www.columbia.edu/) Department of Public Safety published a Clery crime alert flyer. The live [Clery crime alerts index](https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/content/clery-crime-alerts) is currently access-restricted to automated clients (Cloudflare 403); this case uses a [Wayback-archived PDF](https://web.archive.org/web/20250804133624/https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/W04_Clery_Sexual_Harassment_Medical_Center_2025-01-07-2025-01-25.pdf) of the same public notice series.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Official Clery crime alert PDF with complete transmitted text",
    "Recovered via Wayback Machine because the live Public Safety host blocks automated access"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Clery crime alert PDF (Wayback)",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250804133624/https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/W04_Clery_Sexual_Harassment_Medical_Center_2025-01-07-2025-01-25.pdf",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Columbia Public Safety Clery crime alerts index",
      "url": "https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/content/clery-crime-alerts",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Columbia University",
      "url": "https://www.columbia.edu/",
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  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "sexual-assault",
    "clery",
    "timely-warning",
    "columbia",
    "new-york",
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  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-07-21",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-21",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}