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Penn State Beaver's Second 2024 Stalking Warning: When the Victim is a Staff Member

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The reported stalking incident occurred on August 26, 2024 at approximately 4:00 PM EDT in the Student Union Building at Penn State Beaver. On August 27, 2024 at approximately 9:00 AM EDT, University Police received the report from a staff-member victim. The victim reported being stalked and harassed by a known person who was a visitor to campus. The case (24BR00025) was the second stalking-VAWA timely warning issued by Penn State Beaver in 2024.

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Pennsylvania State University, Beaver
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INITIAL ALERTEmail
Verified verbatimPenn State Timely Warnings (timelywarnings.psu.edu) — Beaver campus, case 24BR00025809 chars
Stalking - VAWA has occurred at Beaver Case Number: 24BR00025 University Police received a report of stalking on August 27, 2024 at approximately 9:00 a.m. The victim, a staff member, reported being stalked and harassed by a known person who is a visitor to campus. The incident is being investigated by police. It can be assumed that conditions continue to exist that may pose a threat to members and guests of the University community. This warning is being issued in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act and the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (VAWA). Members of the campus community are urged to use caution. Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact Penn State University Police at (724) 773-3888.
This is Penn State Beaver's second stalking-VAWA warning in 2024 — the first (24BR00014) was issued in April for a different victim, illustrating that small branch campuses can produce multiple stalking warnings in a single year
The victim was a staff member, not a student — a reminder that Clery and VAWA timely warnings protect all members of the campus community
The suspect was a known visitor to campus, not a student or employee — common in workplace-stalking cases
The reported stalking incident occurred August 26, 2024 at approximately 4:00 PM EDT in the Student Union Building; the report itself was made the next morning, August 27, at 9:00 AM EDT
The 'BR' campus prefix is Penn State Beaver; the 25th case-number indicates this small ~600-student campus had logged 25 police reports by late August
Penn State's standardized continuing-threat language ('It can be assumed that conditions continue to exist') is the bright-line trigger across all 24 campuses
The brevity of the narrative (just two sentences) reflects Penn State's standard VAWA warning structure — minimal incident detail to protect the survivor's identity
Context

Background

Penn State Beaver is a small (~600-student) commonwealth-system branch campus of Pennsylvania State University in Monaca, PA. This August 2024 timely warning is significant because the victim was a staff member rather than a student — a category often overlooked in campus-violence discourse. Penn State's centralized timely-warning archive covers all 24 campuses with case numbers, campus-specific URLs, and standardized continuing-threat language. According to Daily Collegian reporting, Penn State issues relatively few stalking-VAWA warnings system-wide despite stalking being among the most common reported VAWA-covered crimes. The fact that Beaver — a campus 1/80th the size of University Park — issued two stalking-VAWA warnings in a single calendar year (24BR00014 in April, 24BR00025 in August) is statistically notable and may reflect either an increase in actual incidents, an improvement in reporting rates, or a more proactive issuance threshold by the local Clery officer. The 'known visitor' framing also illustrates that campus VAWA warnings cover non-affiliated individuals when they create a continuing threat to people on Clery geography.
Analysis

Key Findings

VAWA timely warnings protect all campus community members — including staff and faculty, not only students
Small branch campuses can produce multiple stalking warnings in a single year — Beaver issued two in 2024
The suspect was a 'known visitor' rather than a student or employee — a reminder that VAWA warnings cover non-affiliated individuals on Clery geography
Penn State's standardized warning format applies the same continuing-threat language regardless of victim type
Brief incident-narrative format (two sentences) is Penn State's deliberate choice to protect survivor identity
Outcome
Investigation ongoing. Suspect was a known visitor to campus, banned from returning. The case demonstrates that VAWA timely warnings cover all members of the campus community — students, staff, and faculty — not only students.
Provenance

Sources

  1. Official
    Penn State Beaver Timely Warning — Stalking VAWA (case 24BR00025)
    timelywarnings.psu.edu
  2. Official
    Penn State Timely Warnings centralized archive
    timelywarnings.psu.edu
  3. Student Paper
    What to know about timely warnings — Daily Collegian
    psucollegian.com
  4. Clery ASR
    Penn State Beaver 2024 Annual Security Report
    police.psu.edu
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Added May 2026Updated May 2026Via ingestion