LVC campus safety officers will investigate reports. All incident reports and investigatory findings are forwarded to the vice president of student affairs and dean of students or their designee for review and potential on campus judicial action.
If assistance is required from the Annville Township Police Department or the Annville-Cleona Fire District, LVC’s Office of Campus Safety will contact the appropriate agency. If a sexual assault or rape occurs, College staff on the scene, including campus safety, will offer the victim a wide variety of services. LVC has a sexual misconduct policy.
Incidents should be reported to the LVC Office of Campus Safety to aid in providing timely warning notices to the community, when appropriate, and to ensure inclusion in the annual crime statistics.
If you are a victim of a crime and do not want to pursue action within the College or the criminal justice system, you are still encouraged to make a confidential report with one of the College’s confidential reporting resources noted above.
The purpose of a confidential report is to comply with your wish to keep the matter confidential, while taking steps to ensure the future safety of yourself and others. With such information, the College can keep an accurate record of the number of incidents; determine where there is a pattern of crime about a location, method, or assailant; and alert the campus community to potential danger. Reports filed in this manner are counted and disclosed in the annual crimes statistics for the institution.
The College also provides access to RealResponse, an anonymous way to report issues or concerns including harassment, sexual misconduct, safety concerns, bullying, discrimination, bias or any other type of misconduct or policy violation you experience in the LVC community. Please note that this is not a first responder system. Therefore, in the case of an immediate emergency, please call 911.
Campus health care staff, pastoral counselors, and campus professional counselors, when acting as such, are not considered to be a campus security authority, and are not required to report crimes for inclusion in the annual disclosure of crime statistics. As a matter of policy, they encourage clients of the procedures to report crimes on a voluntary basis for inclusion in the annual crime statistics.
Counselors are defined as:
Pastoral Counselor
An employee of an institution who is associated with a religious order or denomination as someone who provides confidential counseling and who is functioning within the scope of that recognition as a pastoral counselor.
Professional Counselor
An employee of an institution whose official responsibilities include providing psychological counseling to members of the institution’s community, and who is functioning within the scope of their license or certification.