{
  "id": "2024-08-26-princeton-university-university-place-lewdness",
  "slug": "princeton-university-university-place-lewdness-2024-08-26",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Princeton University",
    "shortName": "Princeton",
    "state": "NJ",
    "type": "private-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "TigerAlert",
    "enrollment": 8500
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2024-08-26",
    "type": "other",
    "cleryCategory": "advisory",
    "resolution": "under-investigation",
    "headline": "Advisory after lewdness reported in a car on a campus street",
    "headlinePublic": "Advisory after lewdness reported in a car on a campus street",
    "summary": "Princeton [Public Safety issued a TigerAlert](https://publicsafety.princeton.edu/safety/alerts-warnings/tigeralert-lewdness-0) after a report of lewdness involving a male in a dark grey sedan on University Place at about 8:30 p.m. on August 26, 2024.",
    "outcome": "Suspect description circulated; tip line provided. Final disposition not always stated on the inactive alert page.",
    "casualties": {
      "killed": 0,
      "injured": 0
    }
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestamp": "2024-08-26T21:00:00-04:00",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "This notice is to advise you of an incident that concerns the University community.\n\nDate: August 26, 2024\n\nIncident: Lewdness\n\nAt about 8:30 p.m., the Department of Public Safety received a report that a male was masturbating in a car parked in a metered space on University Place. The car left the location and traveled south on University Place. Authorities have not located the suspect. The car was described as a dark grey sedan with tinted windows. The driver was described as bald and wearing dark clothes. The Department of Public Safety believes this incident to be unrelated to the previous alert. If you have information relevant to this incident, please contact DPS at 609-258-1000.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://publicsafety.princeton.edu/safety/alerts-warnings/tigeralert-lewdness-0",
      "sourceDescription": "Princeton Department of Public Safety Alerts & Warnings (TigerAlert archive page)",
      "annotations": [
        "Full text recovered from the official publicsafety.princeton.edu Alerts & Warnings page for this TigerAlert.",
        "Inactive archive page preserves the transmitted community notice wording."
      ],
      "characterCount": 694
    }
  ],
  "context": "Princeton [Public Safety issued a TigerAlert](https://publicsafety.princeton.edu/safety/alerts-warnings/tigeralert-lewdness-0) after a report of lewdness involving a male in a dark grey sedan on University Place at about 8:30 p.m. on August 26, 2024. Official Public Safety alert archive pages preserve full TigerAlert wording for Clery and community advisories; many pages are Cloudflare-protected to automated clients and were recovered via a public text mirror of the live page.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Official Public Safety Alerts & Warnings page preserves complete TigerAlert wording",
    "Message includes tip-line contact and (where present) suspect description for community awareness"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Public Safety TigerAlert archive — TigerAlert: Lewdness — male in car on University Place",
      "url": "https://publicsafety.princeton.edu/safety/alerts-warnings/tigeralert-lewdness-0",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Princeton Department of Public Safety — Alerts & Warnings index",
      "url": "https://publicsafety.princeton.edu/safety/alerts-warnings",
      "type": "official-archive"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "lewdness",
    "advisory",
    "tigeralert",
    "princeton",
    "public-safety"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-07-21",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-21",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}