{
  "id": "2025-03-08-rollins-college-dating-violence-timely-notification",
  "slug": "rollins-college-dating-violence-timely-notification-2025-03-08",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Rollins College",
    "shortName": "Rollins",
    "state": "FL",
    "type": "private-liberal-arts",
    "alertSystemName": "R-Alert",
    "enrollment": 3000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-03-08",
    "type": "dating-violence",
    "cleryCategory": "timely-warning",
    "resolution": "under-investigation",
    "headline": "A dating partner's threatening behavior in a residence hall prompts a safety notice",
    "headlinePublic": "A dating partner's threatening behavior in a residence hall prompts a safety notice",
    "summary": "Late in the evening of March 8, 2025, Rollins College's Campus Safety Department [received a report of dating violence in Elizabeth Hall](https://www.rollins.edu/about-rollins/clery-compliance/timely-notifications/), a residence hall, describing threatening behavior by a student toward a former dating partner who is also a Rollins student. The college issued a Clery timely notification and said the Winter Park Police Department was notified and working with Campus Safety.",
    "outcome": "Rollins reported that all individuals involved had been identified and the reporting party was connected with campus care and resources. No arrest or further public disposition of the case was reported.",
    "casualties": {
      "killed": 0,
      "injured": 0
    }
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "Late in the evening of March 8, 2025",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "Timely Warning Notification\nDating Violence\nMarch 11, 2025\n\nLate in the evening on March 8, 2025, the Rollins College Campus Safety Department received a report of dating violence that occurred in Elizabeth Hall. According to the report, a Rollins student engaged in threatening behavior involving a former dating partner who is also a Rollins student. All individuals have been identified, and the reporting party is being provided with the appropriate level of care and resources and is connected with the proper offices on campus. Additionally, the Winter Park Police Department has been notified and is working closely with Campus Safety in response to the incident. If you have any additional information, please contact Campus Safety at 407-646-2999 or via email at campussafety@rollins.edu.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.rollins.edu/about-rollins/clery-compliance/timely-notifications/",
      "sourceDescription": "Rollins Clery timely-notifications page (Dating Violence, March 11, 2025 product)",
      "annotations": [
        "Elizabeth Hall is a Rollins residence hall, placing the reported incident squarely within Clery-reportable campus geography",
        "Rollins withheld the names of both the reporting student and the accused student from the public notice, consistent with Clery's prohibition on identifying dating-violence victims",
        "The notice's dual-track language, connecting the reporting party to care and resources while also looping in Winter Park Police, reflects Rollins' Campus Safety department's standard practice for interpersonal-violence reports",
        "Dual independent HTML fetch 2026-08-24 (574317-byte match). Official product includes Timely Warning header; NBSP before connected preserved.",
        "Standing resource-list chrome after the notice body omitted.",
        "Distinct incident from 2025-02-21-rollins-college-elizabeth-hall-hate-crime-vandalism: different date and crime (dating violence vs hate-crime vandalism), same hall."
      ],
      "characterCount": 797,
      "confidence": "high"
    }
  ],
  "context": "Rollins College, a private liberal arts college of roughly 3,000 students in Winter Park, Florida, issues Clery Act timely notifications through its [Campus Safety Department](https://www.rollins.edu/about-rollins/clery-compliance/timely-notifications/) whenever a reported crime is judged to represent an ongoing threat to the community. Late on the evening of March 8, 2025, Campus Safety received a report of dating violence occurring in Elizabeth Hall, a residence hall, describing threatening behavior by a Rollins student toward a former dating partner who is also enrolled at the college. The resulting notice stated that all individuals involved had been identified, that the reporting student was being connected with campus care and resources, and that the [Winter Park Police Department](https://www.rollins.edu/parents-families/campus-safety/r-alert/) had been notified and was working alongside Campus Safety. Rollins distributes such notices through its R-Alert emergency communication system, which can reach the community by text, email, and phone, in addition to posting timely notices directly on its Clery compliance webpage. No independent local news coverage of this specific incident was located; the college's own Clery-mandated notification is the public record for the case.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "The notice documents a same-institution dating-violence report between two enrolled students, escalating to local police involvement even though the incident occurred inside a residence hall rather than a public area",
    "Rollins' notice format withheld identifying detail about both parties while still meeting the Clery Act's timely-warning obligation, illustrating how small private colleges balance victim privacy against the requirement to inform the community"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Rollins College Timely Notifications (Clery Alerts)",
      "url": "https://www.rollins.edu/about-rollins/clery-compliance/timely-notifications/",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-08-24",
      "archiveUrl": null,
      "archiveNotes": "SPN 523 at capture 2026-08-24; archive.org save endpoint returned HTTP 523"
    },
    {
      "title": "R-Alert (Rollins College Campus Safety)",
      "url": "https://www.rollins.edu/parents-families/campus-safety/r-alert/",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-07-20"
    },
    {
      "title": "Rollins College Clery Compliance & Campus Safety Report",
      "url": "https://www.rollins.edu/about-rollins/clery-compliance/",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-07-20"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "dating-violence",
    "rollins-college",
    "florida",
    "private-liberal-arts",
    "timely-warning",
    "residence-hall",
    "winter-park"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-07-20",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-08-24",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}