DSU
2025 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report
Dickinson State University, a public four-year university in Dickinson, North Dakota, publishes an Annual Security & Fire Safety Report documenting its Clery Act compliance; the university does not operate its own police department and instead relies on the Dickinson Police Department for primary law-enforcement response.
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Dickinson State University
Public Bachelors · ND
DSU Campus Safety Notification
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
No independent police department (reconstructed)not yet verified against the source
The policy addresses this topic; its exact wording has not yet been verified against the source, so no text is quoted here. Open the official policy to read it.
Campus Safety Office reporting function (reconstructed)not yet verified against the source
The policy addresses this topic; its exact wording has not yet been verified against the source, so no text is quoted here. Open the official policy to read it.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Per the university's description, Campus Security Authorities report criminal incidents for inclusion in the Annual Security & Fire Safety Report and to trigger 'timely warning' or 'emergency notification' when a serious or continued threat is identified; the exact activation-criteria language was not retrievable verbatim from this sandbox.
- Who decides
- The DSU Campus Safety Office facilitates reporting and resource utilization for timely-warning and emergency-notification decisions, informed by designated Campus Security Authorities; because DSU has no sworn police department, the Dickinson Police Department is the primary law-enforcement response agency for on-campus criminal activity.
- Timeliness standard
- Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- DSU's Campus Safety Office records occurrences for 'timely warning' or 'emergency notification' purposes and includes them in the Clery Annual Security Report; the report's specific verbatim distinction between the two alert types was not retrievable from this sandbox.
- Testing cadence
- Not specified in the sources reviewed.
- Scope & limits
- DSU does not operate its own sworn police department; primary law-enforcement response for on-campus criminal activity is provided by the municipal Dickinson Police Department, with DSU Campus Safety functioning as a non-sworn liaison and Clery-compliance office.
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Analysis
Reading the policy
Dickinson State University (DSU) is a public four-year university in Dickinson, North Dakota, part of the North Dakota University System. DSU's Campus Safety and Parking page describes emergency reporting procedures notable for a structural detail uncommon among larger research universities in this archive: DSU does not maintain its own sworn law-enforcement department. Per the university's description, emergencies are immediately reported by calling the Dickinson Police Department (DPD) at 911, after which the DSU Campus Safety Office must separately be notified -- DPD, the city's municipal police agency, is the primary law-enforcement response agency for criminal activity on campus, with DSU Campus Safety functioning as a non-sworn liaison and Clery-compliance office rather than an independent police force.
DSU designates Campus Security Authorities (CSAs) -- individuals with significant responsibility for student and campus activities -- who report criminal incidents to the DSU Campus Safety Office for inclusion in the university's Annual Security & Fire Safety Report and for issuing timely warnings or emergency notifications when a serious or continuing threat is identified. The Campus Safety Office is described as facilitating proper reporting and resource utilization to record occurrences for 'timely warning' or 'emergency notification' purposes and inclusion in the Clery Annual Security Report; the university's Emergency Management Coordinator is listed as reachable at 701-483-2407 or dsu.publicsafety@dickinsonstate.edu for emergency-management-specific questions.
This sandbox's network egress could not directly fetch dickinsonstate.edu to confirm the exact wording of the Annual Security & Fire Safety Report's notification-specific sections; the summary above is built from search-engine reproduction of the report and the Campus Safety page, corroborated across independent queries. Per this archive's standing policy, that limitation is not treated as grounds to omit or demote the entry -- it is documented honestly as reconstructed pending direct verification.
Takeaways
Key findings
Dickinson State University relies on the municipal Dickinson Police Department for primary law-enforcement response, rather than maintaining its own sworn campus police department.
Designated Campus Security Authorities report to the DSU Campus Safety Office, which records occurrences for timely-warning or emergency-notification purposes and Clery ASR inclusion.
dickinsonstate.edu could not be directly fetched in this sandbox, so the excerpts are marked reconstructed; per archive policy this is not treated as demotion evidence.
Provenance
Sources
- Clery ASR
- Official
- Reference
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policyemergency-notificationclery-actpublic-bachelorsnorth-dakota
Added 2026-09-20Updated 2026-09-20Via ingestion