INITIAL ALERTEmail
Approximate reconstructionUniversity of Utah Department of Public Safety (reconstructed from the safety-warning page)721 chars
University of Utah Safety Warning — Stalking and Harassment
The University of Utah Police Department is investigating reports that two women were aggressively followed and harassed by the same individual on campus, including at the Marriott Library, the Union Building and the University Store, beginning May 31. The reporting parties interacted with the individual on multiple occasions on campus.
The University of Utah's goal is to send a safety warning within hours of an incident being reported. Safety warnings fulfill the Clery Act requirement to notify the community of a serious or ongoing threat. Anyone who sees this individual or has information is asked to contact the University of Utah Police Department.
This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.
Reconstructed from the U of U public-safety alert page; the original safety-warning text is not quoted verbatim, so isVerbatimConfirmed is false
Describes a course of conduct across three named campus buildings, satisfying stalking's pattern definition while keeping victims anonymous ('two women,' 'reporting parties')
Reflects the university's stated standard — a safety warning 'within hours' of a report — a notably fast self-imposed timeliness benchmark
This case escalated to an arrest and a permanent campus ban, so a later update flipped resolution toward a confirmed threat rather than an open investigation
Avoids naming the arrested individual in the warning itself; the identity surfaced in the subsequent arrest update, not the initial community alert