{
  "id": "2024-08-26-penn-state-beaver-stalking-staff",
  "slug": "penn-state-beaver-stalking-staff-2024-08-26",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Pennsylvania State University, Beaver",
    "shortName": "Penn State Beaver",
    "state": "PA",
    "type": "public-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "PSUAlert",
    "alertPlatform": "Rave Mobile Safety",
    "enrollment": 600
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2024-08-26",
    "endDate": "2024-08-27",
    "type": "stalking",
    "cleryCategory": "timely-warning",
    "headline": "Staff member reports stalking and harassment by a known campus visitor",
    "headlinePublic": "Staff member reports stalking and harassment by a known campus visitor",
    "summary": "On August 27, 2024 at approximately 9:00 AM EDT, [Penn State Beaver](https://beaver.psu.edu/) University Police received a report of stalking from a staff member, who reported being [stalked and harassed by a known person](https://timelywarnings.psu.edu/beaver/24br00025) who was a visitor to campus. The reported conduct was associated with the campus Student Union Building. University Police issued the VAWA timely warning (case 24BR00025) on August 28, 2024, the second stalking-VAWA timely warning issued by Penn State Beaver in 2024 (the first, 24BR00014, was issued in April).",
    "outcome": "Investigation ongoing. The suspect was a known person who is a visitor to campus. The case demonstrates that VAWA timely warnings cover all members of the campus community (students, staff, and faculty), not only students.",
    "resolution": "under-investigation"
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "Issued as a VAWA timely warning on August 28, 2024, the day after the August 27, 2024 report",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "Stalking - VAWA has occurred at Beaver\n\nCase Number: 24BR00025\n\nUniversity 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.\n\nIt can be assumed that conditions continue to exist that may pose a threat to members and guests of the University community.\n\nThis 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).\n\nMembers 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.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://timelywarnings.psu.edu/beaver/24br00025",
      "sourceDescription": "Penn State Timely Warnings (timelywarnings.psu.edu), Beaver campus, case 24BR00025",
      "annotations": [
        "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 stalking was reported to University Police on the morning of August 27, 2024 at approximately 9:00 AM EDT, and the warning was issued the next day, August 28, 2024; the reported conduct was associated with the campus Student Union Building",
        "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"
      ],
      "characterCount": 809
    }
  ],
  "context": "[Penn State Beaver](https://beaver.psu.edu/) is a small (~600-student) commonwealth-system branch campus of [Pennsylvania State University](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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](https://timelywarnings.psu.edu/) covers all 24 campuses with case numbers, campus-specific URLs, and standardized continuing-threat language. According to [Daily Collegian reporting](https://www.psucollegian.com/features/what-to-know-about-timely-warnings/article_339dbda8-70b7-11ef-8a9a-3b91c908dec2.html), Penn State issues relatively few stalking-VAWA warnings system-wide despite stalking being among the most common reported [VAWA-covered crimes](https://www.justice.gov/ovw/violence-against-women-reauthorization-act-2013). 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.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "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"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Penn State Beaver Timely Warning, Stalking VAWA (case 24BR00025)",
      "url": "https://timelywarnings.psu.edu/beaver/24br00025",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Penn State Timely Warnings centralized archive",
      "url": "https://timelywarnings.psu.edu/",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "What to know about timely warnings (Daily Collegian)",
      "url": "https://www.psucollegian.com/features/what-to-know-about-timely-warnings/article_339dbda8-70b7-11ef-8a9a-3b91c908dec2.html",
      "type": "student-newspaper"
    },
    {
      "title": "Penn State Beaver 2024 Annual Security Report",
      "url": "https://www.police.psu.edu/sites/police/files/2024-09/penn-state-beaver-2024-final.pdf",
      "type": "clery-asr"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "stalking",
    "vawa",
    "timely-warning",
    "staff-victim",
    "branch-campus",
    "public-r1",
    "penn-state",
    "beaver",
    "centralized-archive",
    "known-visitor"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-05-03",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-16",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}