{
  "id": "2024-08-28-princeton-university-university-place-lewdness",
  "slug": "princeton-university-university-place-lewdness-2024-08-28",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Princeton University",
    "shortName": "Princeton",
    "state": "NJ",
    "type": "private-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "TigerAlert",
    "enrollment": 8500
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2024-08-28",
    "type": "other",
    "cleryCategory": "advisory",
    "resolution": "confirmed-threat",
    "headline": "Second advisory after lewdness reported in a car on a campus street",
    "headlinePublic": "Second 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/update-tigeralert-lewdness-82824) after a morning report of lewdness involving a male in a white sedan on University Place on August 28, 2024. A later page update states a subject was identified, charged, and barred from campus.",
    "outcome": "Subject identified, criminally charged, and barred from campus per the September 12, 2024 update on the Public Safety archive page.",
    "casualties": {
      "killed": 0,
      "injured": 0
    }
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestamp": "2024-08-28T09:00:00-04:00",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "This notice is to advise you of an incident that concerns the University community.\n\nDate: August 28, 2024\n\nIncident: Lewdness\n\nOn August 28 at approximately 8:15 a.m., the Department of Public Safety received a report that a male was masturbating in a car parked at the curb on University Place. When the reporting person took out their phone to call the authorities, the driver left the area in a white sedan, traveling west on Dickinson Street. The driver was described as wearing a baseball cap, and the Department of Public Safety believes this incident may be unrelated to the previous alerts issued earlier this week. We continue to receive calls related to the alerts issued on Monday and the investigations are ongoing. If you have information relevant to these incidents, please contact DPS at 609-258-1000.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://publicsafety.princeton.edu/safety/alerts-warnings/update-tigeralert-lewdness-82824",
      "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": 817
    },
    {
      "sequence": 2,
      "type": "update",
      "timestamp": "2024-09-12T11:34:00-04:00",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "This is an update to the TigerAlert that was sent on August 28, 2024, regarding an incident of lewdness on University Place.\n\nThe subject responsible for the act has been identified and criminally charged by law enforcement officials. The suspect is not a member of the campus community and has been barred from campus. If you have additional information relevant to these incidents, please contact DPS at 609-258-1000.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://publicsafety.princeton.edu/safety/alerts-warnings/update-tigeralert-lewdness-82824",
      "sourceDescription": "Princeton Public Safety Alerts & Warnings update section on same archive page",
      "annotations": [
        "Update text from the same official archive page, dated Last Updated September 12, 2024.",
        "Reports identification, criminal charges, non-affiliate status, and campus bar."
      ],
      "characterCount": 419
    }
  ],
  "context": "Princeton [Public Safety issued a TigerAlert](https://publicsafety.princeton.edu/safety/alerts-warnings/update-tigeralert-lewdness-82824) after a morning report of lewdness involving a male in a white sedan on University Place on August 28, 2024. A later page update states a subject was identified, charged, and barred from campus. 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 — Lewdness Aug 28, 2024 (initial + update page)",
      "url": "https://publicsafety.princeton.edu/safety/alerts-warnings/update-tigeralert-lewdness-82824",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Princeton Department of Public Safety — Alerts & Warnings",
      "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"
}