The Ithacan

Bill Kerry, director of the Ithaca College Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management, discussed a Public Safety app with the SGC on Feb. 3.

The assessment made more than 40 recommendations for Public Safety, some of which the college has already addressed.

“People don’t realize how much work they have to do and how much time they have to spend doing it. And most people don’t know that we are really understaffed.”

Ithaca College Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management announced that the body camera policy is now complete.

All registered weapons are stored in a firearm safe and can be accessed only if there is an officer present and permission to release the weapon has been secured in advance.

Staff Writer Jack Sears spoke with Kerry about his plans to improve relations with Public Safety and other goals he has for the office.

The Ithaca College Office of Public Safety has sent a letter to the college’s contingent faculty unions threatening action up to “legal proceedings.”

Terri Stewart, director of Public Safety, will be leaving the college to become director of the Office of Campus Safety at Nazareth College.

Another Circles resident, who asked to remain anonymous, was in her apartment when a man trespassed into her residence through the second-floor balcony over winter break.

A work group formed in October 2015 between Residential Life and Public Safety is currently focusing on the creation of a community review board to make decisions about concerns regarding Public Safety.

Ithaca College has seen a dramatic increase in the number of students who were reported to be “at risk” over the past five years.

Selected Public Safety Log entries from February 17 to February 23.