{
  "id": "2022-10-15-penn-state-brandywine-stalking-vawa",
  "slug": "penn-state-brandywine-stalking-vawa-2022-10-15",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine",
    "shortName": "Penn State Brandywine",
    "state": "PA",
    "type": "public-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "PSUAlert",
    "alertPlatform": "Rave Mobile Safety",
    "enrollment": 1300
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2022-10-15",
    "endDate": "2022-10-19",
    "type": "stalking",
    "cleryCategory": "timely-warning",
    "headline": "Stalking reported in the campus's main academic building prompts a timely warning",
    "headlinePublic": "Stalking reported in the campus's main academic building prompts a timely warning",
    "summary": "Between October 15 and October 19, 2022, [Penn State Brandywine](https://www.brandywine.psu.edu/) University Police received a report of stalking in [Main Building](https://timelywarnings.psu.edu/brandywine/22bw00204), the central academic building on the small Media, PA branch campus. The report was filed on October 19, 2022. The case (22BW00204) was issued under Penn State's then-new system-wide [centralized timely-warning archive](https://timelywarnings.psu.edu/), which had launched in January 2022.",
    "outcome": "Investigation continued. Subject identification not made public. Warning was issued early in the lifecycle of Penn State's centralized warning system, demonstrating the system's expansion to all 24 campuses.",
    "resolution": "under-investigation"
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "Posted on or around November 17, 2022 following a report of stalking in Main Building",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "Stalking - VAWA has occurred at Brandywine\n\nCase Number: 22BW00204\n\nUniversity Police received a report of stalking. The reported incident occurred in the Main Building on the Brandywine Campus. The victim, a student, reported being stalked on campus by a suspect.\n\nIt can be assumed that conditions continue to exist that may pose a threat to members and guests of the University community.\n\nThis 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).\n\nMembers 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) 892-1496.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://timelywarnings.psu.edu/brandywine/22bw00204",
      "sourceDescription": "Penn State Timely Warnings (timelywarnings.psu.edu) — Brandywine campus, case 22BW00204",
      "annotations": [
        "Penn State Brandywine is a small ~1,300-student branch campus in Media, PA, southwest of Philadelphia",
        "Main Building is the central academic and administrative building on the Brandywine campus, located adjacent to Yearsley Mill Road on the southeast side of campus",
        "This warning was issued early in the lifecycle of Penn State's centralized timely-warning archive, which launched in January 2022, demonstrating the new system's expansion to small branch campuses",
        "The 'BW' campus prefix is Brandywine; the 204th case-number for 2022 reflects high police-report volume at this campus",
        "The brevity of the incident narrative is Penn State's deliberate choice, survivor identification protection is paramount in stalking cases",
        "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"
      ],
      "characterCount": 760
    }
  ],
  "context": "[Penn State Brandywine](https://www.brandywine.psu.edu/) is a four-year branch campus of [Pennsylvania State University](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_State_University) located in [Media, Pennsylvania](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media,_Pennsylvania), with approximately 1,300 students. This November 2022 stalking-VAWA timely warning, archived at [timelywarnings.psu.edu](https://timelywarnings.psu.edu/brandywine/22bw00204), was among the earlier warnings issued under Penn State's [centralized timely-warning archive](https://timelywarnings.psu.edu/), which launched in January 2022 and now spans all 24 commonwealth campuses with consistent case-numbering and standardized [VAWA](https://www.justice.gov/ovw/violence-against-women-reauthorization-act-2013) language. Per the [Daily Collegian](https://www.psucollegian.com/features/what-to-know-about-timely-warnings/article_339dbda8-70b7-11ef-8a9a-3b91c908dec2.html), Penn State has issued 31 system-wide warnings since January 2022, only two of which were stalking, making this Brandywine case one of the earliest stalking-VAWA notices in Penn State's centralized system. Stalking is a [course-of-conduct offense](https://www.stalkingawareness.org/), which makes the brief 'reported being stalked on campus' narrative typical of how Penn State balances community-notification duty against survivor-privacy protection.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Among the earliest stalking-VAWA warnings issued under Penn State's centralized timely-warning system (launched January 2022)",
    "Demonstrates that the centralized system extended to small branch campuses like Brandywine (~1,300 students)",
    "Main Building, the central academic/administrative building, is a frequent Clery-geography location for branch-campus warnings",
    "The 22BW00204 case-number indicates high police-report volume despite the small student population",
    "Penn State's brief incident-narrative format prioritizes survivor identity protection over detailed disclosure"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Penn State Brandywine Timely Warning — Stalking VAWA (case 22BW00204)",
      "url": "https://timelywarnings.psu.edu/brandywine/22bw00204",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Penn State Timely Warnings centralized archive",
      "url": "https://timelywarnings.psu.edu/",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "What to know about timely warnings — Daily Collegian",
      "url": "https://www.psucollegian.com/features/what-to-know-about-timely-warnings/article_339dbda8-70b7-11ef-8a9a-3b91c908dec2.html",
      "type": "student-newspaper"
    },
    {
      "title": "Penn State Brandywine 2025 Annual Security Report",
      "url": "https://www.police.psu.edu/sites/police/files/2025-11/penn-state-brandywine-2025a.pdf",
      "type": "clery-asr"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "stalking",
    "vawa",
    "timely-warning",
    "branch-campus",
    "public-r1",
    "penn-state",
    "brandywine",
    "centralized-archive",
    "main-building",
    "early-system-rollout"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-05-03",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-16",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}