Preventing Sexual Violence in Higher Education Act Annual Reports

This report is prepared in compliance with the Illinois Preventing Sexual Violence in Higher Education Act (110 ILCS 205/9.21 (b)). Under this law, Angel of God Resource Center, Inc. (AOGRC) must meet several requirements, including: developing a comprehensive policy, including a procedure to resolve complaints; providing students with a confidential advisor; participating in a task force; offering annual training to students and agency employees; and reporting information and data annually to the Illinois Attorney General’s Office.

• The numbers provided within this report were reviewed using the following parameters included in the Preventing Sexual Violence in Higher Education Act (110 ILCS 205/9.21(b)) and Frequently Asked Questions Regarding Reporting Requirements document revised by the Illinois Attorney General on 09.2024:
• For requirements that took effect on October 31, 2025, the agency may report data from July 1, 2024 – June 30 2025; and
• Reported incidents should only pertain to “sexual violence, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking;” and
• Data should be reported “whether filed against another student, a (higher education institution) HEI employee, or someone unaffiliated with the HEI” and that data regarding disciplinary processes should be “related to complaints made by students against students subject to discipline under the HEI’s complaint resolution procedure;” and
• “Schools should only report data related to complaints of incidents that occurred within the geographic areas defined by the Clery Act…if a report does not include a location of the incident alleged in the complaint, schools should include that report or disclosure in its data and may annotate.”

The federal Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, also known as the Clery Act (Act), is designed to:

• Inform students, employees, prospective students and employees, and the interested public of safety information at the nation’s federally-funded institutions of higher education
• Broadly require certain policies be disclosed
• Deliver awareness programming to the school and its community
• Communicate with the campus and larger communities about safety issues
• Provide statistics on campus crime and discipline to interested parties and the federal government

To meet certain aspects of the Clery Act requirements, AOGRC maintains the following documents:

 Definitions of Clery Act Crimes

• Criminal Homicide Murder & Non-negligent Manslaughter — The willful (non-negligent) killing of one human being by another.
• Negligent Manslaughter — The killing of another person through gross negligence.
• Sexual Assault —
• Rape is defined as penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.
• Fondling is defined as touching of the private body parts of another person for the purpose of sexual gratification, without the consent of the victim, including instances where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her age or because of his/her temporary or permanent mental incapacity.
• Incest is defined as nonforcible sexual intercourse between persons who are related to each other within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.
• Statutory Rape is defined as nonforcible sexual intercourse with a person who is under the statutory age of consent.
• Robbery — The taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody, or control of a person or persons by force or threat of force or violence and/or by putting the victim in fear.
• Aggravated Assault — An unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury. This type of assault usually is accompanied by the use of a weapon or by means likely to produce death or great bodily harm.
• Burglary — The unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft. For reporting purposes this definition includes: unlawful entry with intent to commit a larceny or felony; breaking and entering with the intent to commit a larceny; housebreaking; safecracking; and all attempts to commit any of the aforementioned.
• Larceny-Theft — The unlawful taking, carrying, leading or riding away of property from the possession or constructive possession of another.
• Motor Vehicle Theft (Stolen Vehicle) — The theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle. include joyriding and unauthorized use.
• Arson — Any willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, personal property of another, etc.
• Vandalism — To willfully or maliciously destroy, injure, disfigure or deface any public or private property, real or personal, without the consent of the owner or person having custody or control by cutting, tearing, breaking, marking, painting, drawing, covering with filth or any other such means as may be specified by local law.
• Intimidation — To unlawfully place another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words/or other conduct, but without displaying a weapon or subjecting the victim to actual physical attack.
• Domestic violence — A felony or misdemeanor crime of violence committed:
• By a current or former spouse or intimate partner of the victim;
• By a person with whom the victim shares a child in common;
• By a person who is cohabitating with or has cohabitated with the victim as a spouse or intimate partner;
• By a person similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction in which the crime of violence occurred, or
• By any other person against an adult or youth victim who is protected from that person’s acts under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction in which the crime of violence occurred.
• Dating violence — Violence committed by a person who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim.
• Stalking — A course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear for her, his, or others' safety, or to suffer substantial emotional distress.
• Other Assaults-Simple, Not Aggravated — All other assaults that do not use the use of a firearm, knife, cutting instrument or other dangerous weapon and in which the victim did not sustain serious or aggravated injury. This type of assault may require basic first aid.
• Hazing — Any intentional, knowing, or reckless act committed by a person – whether individually or in concert with other persons – against another person or persons regardless of the willingness of the other person or persons to participate, that: (a) is committed in the course of an initiation into, an affiliation with, or the maintenance of membership in, a student organization; and (b) causes or creates a risk, above the reasonable risk encountered in the course of participation in the institution of higher education or the organization (such as the physical preparation necessary for participation in an athletic team), of physical or psychological injury, including by:
• Whipping, beating, striking, electronic shocking, placing of a harmful substance on someone’s body, or similar activity;
• Causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing sleep deprivation, exposure to the elements, confinement in a small space, extreme calisthenics, or other similar activity;
• Causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing another person to consume food, liquid, alcohol, drugs, or other substances;
• Causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing another person to perform sexual acts;
• Any activity that places another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words or conduct;
• Any activity against another person that includes a criminal violation of local, State, Tribal, or Federal law; or
• Any activity that induces, causes, or requires another person to perform a duty or task that involves a criminal violation of local, State, Tribal, or Federal law.
• Hazing also includes knowingly pressuring or coercing any person to participate in activities that are inconsistent with the University’s community standards or policies.