A woman who helped pass landmark legislation advocating for college campus safety following the murder of her 19-year-old daughter in a Lehigh University dorm room has died.<\/p>\n
Connie Clery died on June 23 at the age of 95, according to her obituary.<\/p>\n
In 1986, Connie’s daughter, Jeanne, was raped and murdered inside her Lehigh dorm. In the years that followed, Connie and her husband, Howard, channeled their grief into a mission to make college campuses safer and ensure crime victims were treated with dignity and compassion.<\/p>\n
The Clerys founded Security on Campus, now known as the Clery Center, which helped pass several major federal laws, including the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act.<\/p>\n
The Clery Act is a consumer protection law designed to provide transparency around campus crime policies and statistics, according to the Clery Center website.<\/p>\n
She is survived by her sons, Howard K. Clery III and Benjamin F. Clery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who helped pass landmark legislation advocating for college campus safety following the murder of her 19-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391],"class_list":["post-238775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}