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Six Months of Contact After Being Told to Stop: West Texas A&M's First 2024 Stalking Warning

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West Texas A&M University in Canyon issued a Timely Warning Notification after its police department received reports of a series of stalking incidents on and off campus and in an on-campus residential facility. The reported conduct ran from February through August 2024, when the suspect continued contacting the victim after being told to stop, prompting a Clery Act warning.

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West Texas A&M University
Public Masters · TX
~10,000 studentsTimely Warning Notification
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Some alert texts below are approximate reconstructions from news coverage, not confirmed verbatim transcripts. Reconstructed texts are shown in italic with a dashed border. Verified verbatim texts have a solid border and are marked accordingly.

INITIAL ALERTEmail
Timely Warning Notification — Stalking The University Police Department has received a report of a series of alleged stalking incidents that occurred on and off campus, including at an on-campus residential facility. The reported incidents occurred between February and August 2024, when the suspect contacted the victim after being told to stop contacting them. Crime victim rights and options, along with stalking information, have been provided to the victim, and the Title IX Office has been notified of the reported incidents. This notification is issued in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act. Anyone with information is asked to contact the University Police Department.

This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.

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Defines the stalking by its pattern — 'a series of incidents' across February-August where contact continued 'after being told to stop' — rather than by a single event
De-identifies both parties; no suspect description was released, consistent with a known-party stalking case
Explicitly states victim rights and Title IX referral were provided, foregrounding survivor support inside the warning
A months-long reporting-to-warning gap is itself notable: the 'timely' warning followed the point at which the continuing-threat threshold was clearly met
Context

Background

West Texas A&M University, a public master's institution in Canyon, issued back-to-back stalking timely warnings in 2024, and the first illustrates how Clery's 'continuing threat' standard maps onto stalking's legal definition as a course of conduct. As MyHighPlains/KAMR reported, the University Police Department received a report of a series of alleged stalking incidents on and off campus and in an on-campus residential facility, occurring from February through August 2024, with the suspect continuing to contact the victim after being told to stop. ABC7 Amarillo noted the incidents dated to February, and Yahoo News carried the wire account. The warning named no suspect and identified no victim — the standard de-identified posture for a known-party stalking case — while documenting that crime-victim rights and Title IX support had been extended. WTAMU's annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report catalogs the university's Clery obligations. Because the conduct was a pattern rather than a single act, the warning's value lay less in describing an assailant than in alerting any other potential targets of the same behavior.
Analysis

Key Findings

Stalking warnings define the threat by a pattern of conduct ('after being told to stop'), not a single incident
WTAMU released no suspect or victim detail, the standard posture for a known-party stalking case
The notification documented victim rights and Title IX referral as part of the warning itself
A months-long lag from first incident to warning reflects how the continuing-threat threshold accrues over time
Provenance

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  2. News
  3. Clery ASR
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Added May 2026Updated May 2026Via ingestion