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Clery Act - Miles College

ALAnnual Security Reportmedium confidence

Miles College, a private HBCU affiliated with the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Fairfield, Alabama, publishes its Clery Act compliance materials through a dedicated Clery Act page prepared by the Miles College Department of Public Safety (MCDPS), which each fall emails students and employees a link to the current report.

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Miles College
Hbcu · AL
Miles College Emergency Notification
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What the policy says

Clery Act compliance statement (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.

Fall email notification practice (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
Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; MCDPS's Daily Crime and Fire Log records incidents reported to the department, feeding the college's timely-warning and Clery ASR obligations.
Who decides
Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed; the Miles College Department of Public Safety (MCDPS) is named as the office preparing the Clery Act materials.
Timeliness standard
Not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.
Emergency notification vs. timely warning
Miles College's Clery Act information is stated to be provided to meet the requirements of the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act of 1998; the report's specific timely-warning-versus-emergency-notification distinction was not retrievable verbatim in this review.
Testing cadence
Not specified in the sources reviewed.
Scope & limits
MCDPS provides continuous 24-hour, year-round coverage and maintains blue-light Emergency Phone Towers around campus; the Daily Crime and Fire Log's most recent 60 days are available for in-person public viewing at the MCDPS office rather than posted online in full.
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Analysis

Reading the policy

Miles College is a private, four-year historically black college affiliated with the Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) Church, located in Fairfield, Alabama, in the Birmingham metropolitan area. The college's Department of Public Safety (MCDPS) prepares Clery Act materials to meet the requirements of the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act of 1998, publishing them via a dedicated Clery Act page alongside a downloadable Annual Security Report. Per the college's documented practice, each fall an email notification is sent to students and employees providing a link to the Clery report, with the URL also included on the Human Resources and Admissions websites to inform prospective students and employees -- a notification-of-availability practice distinct from (but complementary to) the timely-warning and emergency-notification alerts the report itself governs. MCDPS also maintains blue-light Emergency Phone Towers located around campus and provides continuous 24-hour, year-round law enforcement and security coverage. The department keeps a combined Daily Crime and Fire Log of all reported incidents -- identifying type, location, date and time reported, date and time occurring, and current disposition -- with the most recent 60 days available for public viewing at the MCDPS office, 508 56th Street, Fairfield, AL 35064. This sandbox's network egress could not directly fetch miles.edu to confirm the exact wording of the Clery Act page or the Annual Security Report's timely-warning and emergency-notification sections specifically; the summary above is built from search-engine reproduction of the page and report, 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

Miles College, a CME Church-affiliated private HBCU in Fairfield, Alabama, publishes Clery Act materials via a dedicated page prepared by the Miles College Department of Public Safety (MCDPS).
MCDPS emails a link to the Clery report to students and employees each fall and maintains blue-light Emergency Phone Towers plus continuous 24/7 coverage.
The department's Daily Crime and Fire Log (most recent 60 days) is available for public viewing at the MCDPS office, 508 56th Street, Fairfield, AL.
miles.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

  1. Official
  2. Clery ASR
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  4. Reference
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Added 2026-09-20Updated 2026-09-20Via ingestion