campus safety

Utah Valley University will hire eight additional police campus officers and two new safety managers to coordinate security for future events on campus. The school received harsh criticism for its lack of key safety measures on the day of the shooting.

An Associated Press review of Utah Valley University found the school lacked several key public safety measures and practices that are standard security for events around the country.

The university made the announcement Monday as it struggles to contain fallout over security lapses and the shattering of the serene image administrators cultivated.

Utah Valley University student body president Kyle Cullimore said the shooting has “reminded us how deeply in times of need, we utterly and desperately need each other.”

Classes at Utah Valley University were canceled in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Students arrived on Sept. 17 at a solemn campus, one with more security.

Utah’s new school safety law requires an armed individual to be at every K-12 school to protect the kids inside. That includes thousands of young children who attend pre-K or daycare in K-12 school buildings.

The university in Cedar City expects the new officers will allow its police force to better handle investigations and cover campus events like the Utah Shakespeare Festival.

Utah’s new school safety law requires an armed person on campus. There’s also a timetable of work that school districts and law enforcement need to finish before classes start.

There hasn’t been anything at the University of Utah like the reports of violent antisemitism on some college campuses. However, students have felt targeted for being Jewish.

The new ESPN documentary, “LISTEN,” includes interviews with people who had previously never spoken publicly about Lauren McCluskey’s 2018 murder.

A University of Utah panel discussed both policing and safety. Students said there needs to be more intervention before campus tragedies happen.

This year’s annual security reports come after a state legislative audit last spring that identified potential data entry errors in the annual security reports of several of Utah's universities and colleges.