{
  "id": "2025-02-03-columbia-college-chicago-campus-area-lewd-comments",
  "slug": "columbia-college-chicago-campus-area-lewd-comments-2025-02-03",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Columbia College Chicago",
    "shortName": "Columbia Chicago",
    "state": "IL",
    "type": "private-bachelors",
    "alertSystemName": "Campus Safety Alert"
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-02-03",
    "type": "sexual-assault",
    "cleryCategory": "timely-warning",
    "resolution": "contained",
    "headline": "Lewd comments and unwanted contact in the campus area",
    "headlinePublic": "Lewd comments and unwanted contact in the campus area",
    "summary": "Campus Safety [issued a February 4 Crime Advisory covering several February 3 sidewalk incidents of lewd comments and attempted unwanted contact](https://students.colum.edu/safety/pdf/46427901_february_4_2025.pdf).",
    "outcome": "Crime Advisory referencing CPD JJ-136971 ; JJ-138397.",
    "endDate": "2025-02-04"
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "2025-02-04",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "February 4, 2025\n\nColumbia College Chicago Community:\n\nCrime Advisory\n\nThe Chicago Police Department is investigating several incidents that occurred on February 3, in the campus area.\n\nAn offender would approach an individual walking on the public sidewalk and make suggestive or lewd comments. The offender would block or walk alongside the individual and bump into the individual or attempt to make unwanted physical contact.\n\nAnyone with additional information should contact Campus Security at 312-369-3220 and the Chicago Police Department Detectives at 312-746-8263 reference JJ-136971 ; JJ-138397",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://students.colum.edu/safety/pdf/46427901_february_4_2025.pdf",
      "sourceDescription": "Campus Safety Crime Advisory PDF",
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        "Several incidents February 3; notice February 4. Space before semicolon in JJ-136971 ; JJ-138397 preserved. Distinct from 2025-02-18-columbia-college-chicago-harold-washington-library-lower-body-grab."
      ],
      "characterCount": 604
    }
  ],
  "context": "Columbia College Chicago posts Clery Crime Advisories as PDFs at [students.colum.edu/safety/campus-safety-alerts](https://students.colum.edu/safety/campus-safety-alerts).",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Lewd comments and unwanted contact in the campus area."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Campus Safety Crime Advisory PDF",
      "url": "https://students.colum.edu/safety/pdf/46427901_february_4_2025.pdf",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-08-23",
      "archiveUrl": null,
      "archiveNotes": "SPN serialized behind burn-200 repair lane at capture 2026-08-23; archive.org save not yet issued for this URL"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "private-bachelors",
    "illinois",
    "sexual-assault",
    "timely-warning"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-08-23",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-08-23",
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}