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Campus Safety Act of 2008

Floor Speech

Date: Sept. 27, 2008
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Higher Education Criminal Justice


CAMPUS SAFETY ACT OF 2008 -- (House of Representatives - September 27, 2008)

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Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of California. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, over the past few years, we have seen a number of tragic incidents of violence at colleges and universities, including the disastrous incidents at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University.

This bill will help schools to more effectively prevent such incidents and to more effectively respond if such incidents do occur. It creates a national center for campus public safety administered through the Department of Justice. The center will train campus safety agencies, promote research into improving campus safety, and be a clearinghouse for campus safety information. The director at the center will have the authority to award grants to institutions of higher learning to help them meet their enhanced public safety goals.

I would like to thank and publicly acknowledge Crime Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Scott of Virginia, as well as ranking member of that subcommittee, Louie Gohmert of Texas, as well as Senator Leahy for their bipartisan leadership on this initiative.

I reserve the balance of my time.

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