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NDSU Safety Awareness Notice — Motor Vehicle Theft: A motor vehicle theft took place involving a 2014 Silver Chevy Impala which was stolen from the UVS parking lot between 5:30 p.m. Friday, September 29, and 3:00 p.m. Sunday, October 1. The vehicle has been recovered and University police are continuing the investigation into this theft. Please remember to lock your vehicles and secure your keys and other valuables. If you have information that would assist the police investigation you are asked to call the NDSU Police at 231-8998.
NDSU formally labels these notices 'Safety Awareness Notices' rather than 'timely warnings' even though they fulfill the same Clery Act § 668.46(e) function
The 540-character notice was distributed via the NDSU-CAMPUS-ALERT@LISTSERV email channel — the primary written-record method for Safety Awareness Notices
The UVS (University Village South) lot is one of NDSU's two married-student-and-family-housing parking areas, which sees lower foot traffic than central-campus lots — a recurring factor in theft notices
The notice's emphasis on locking vehicles reflects the fact that many Fargo MVT cases involve unlocked cars — a 2023 study found North Dakota saw the third-largest jump in vehicle thefts in the nation