In January 2014, Adrienne Meador Murray joined D. Stafford & Associates where she currently serves as the Vice President, Equity Compliance and Civil Rights Services after having been affiliated with D. Stafford & Associates as a part-time Associate since 2012 and the National Association of Clery Compliance Officers & Professionals (NACCOP) where she currently serves as Director of Training and Compliance Activities. Murray began her career in municipal law enforcement as a civilian employee with the City of Richmond Police Department (Virginia). She graduated from the Virginia Commonwealth University Police Training Academy and began her career as a sworn police officer for the University of Richmond (UR) Police Department (Virginia). At UR, Murray progressed through the ranks from a night shift patrol officer to Operations Lieutenant (overseeing criminal investigations, crime prevention and patrol) over the span of a decade before becoming the Chief of Police at Davidson College in North Carolina. Most recently, Murray served as Chief of Police at Trinity Washington University (in Washington, D.C.).

As the Vice President, Equity Compliance and Civil Rights Services for DSA, Murray builds on her 17-year career in law enforcement in which she became a nationally recognized expert in the field of best practice postsecondary institutional response to the sexual victimization of college women in the United States and in Canada. She is also a trained civil rights investigator and is well respected throughout the country for her ability to aid institutions in understating how to do best practice criminal and civil rights investigations concurrently. She is well known for her work in having provided support, advocacy and criminal investigative services for victims of sexual assault, stalking and intimate partner violence and is a sought-out speaker and investigator. She has expertise in the construction of best practice law enforcement standard operating procedures and training police officers to respond in best practice and trauma-informed ways to victims of sexual assault and intimate partner violence. In her current role, Murray coordinates curriculum development and instruction for national classes, including basic and advanced sexual misconduct investigation classes; an investigation of dating violence, domestic violence and stalking class; and a Title IX Coordinator/Investigator class offered through D. Stafford & Associates. To date, Murray has trained more than 3,500 criminal and civil rights investigators throughout the U.S.

Drawing on her experiences as a trained criminal and civil rights investigator, Murray also oversees independent investigations of complex sexual misconduct cases; conducts audits of Title IX/VAWA Compliance; drafts institutional sexual misconduct policies and procedures; and conducts campus-based trainings pertaining to the resolution of sexual misconduct offenses on college and university campuses. Murray frequently presents at regional and national conferences on topics such as the Sexual Victimization of College Women, Understanding Consent and Incapacitation, and Responding to Sexual Assault on Campus: Clery Act and Title IX Implications. Murray also conducts provincially specific sexual misconduct trainings throughout Canada.

Murray is a graduate of the University of Richmond, where she received her Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Studies in Human Resource Management and of New England College, where she received her Master’s Degree in Campus Public Safety Administration. Murray is also a graduate of the 235th session of the prestigious FBI National Academy where she was awarded a graduate certificate in Criminal Justice from the University of Virginia. She has authored numerous journal articles.

Bill Lafferty retired from active service in Law Enforcement and Public Safety after 38 years of experience and with over 28 years of experience within Higher Education.  He began his career with the U.S. Air Force as a Security Police Specialist.  During his military service, he worked his way up through the ranks and performed a variety of specialized duties within the law enforcement and security field.  These duties included patrol officer duties, patrol supervision, crime prevention programming coordinator, asset and resource protection specialist, and a quality assurance reviewer.  Bill was also instrumental in implementing an Air Force Anti-Terrorism response plan and protocol during his tenure.

After the Air Force, Bill joined the public safety team at Villanova University where he performed duties as a Patrol Sergeant, Shift Lieutenant, Assistant Director of Housing Security, and Associate Director of patrol and investigatory operations.  After nearly seven

years at Villanova, Bill left to become the Director of Public Safety at Gettysburg College.  Bill served 21 years at Gettysburg College, completing his career there as the Assistant Vice President of College Life.  Bill’s responsibilities included: direct strategic management oversight of all public safety operations; sexual and relationship violence response and investigation policy and protocol development; emergency operations management; life and fire safety; behavioral threat assessment; the oversight of institutional Clery Act and Title IX compliance requirements for the college; and during his tenure with Gettysburg, he managed student life development areas including: Greek Life, Student Activities, Experiential Education, and Student Conduct.

Bill went full-time with the National Association of Clery Compliance Officers and Professionals (NACCOP) and D. Stafford & Associates (DSA) in October of 2021, continuing his service as the Director of Federal Relations for NACCOP and serving as the Director, Regulatory Compliance and Public Safety Services for DSA. In his role with DSA, Bill will continue his work as an instructor of the Clery Compliance classes, including the Clery Academy and the Advanced Clery Academy and teaching for the DSA Procedural Justice Institute. Bill will also serve as a team member in conducting Clery Act Audits and Assessments, Procedural Justice Assessments, and Organizational Assessments of campus police and public safety agencies.

Bill has served as the Director of Federal Relations with NACCOP since May of 2016.  In this role, Bill is responsible for monitoring key public policy issues facing institutions of higher education, with a particular focus on those that impact the Clery Act.  Bill is NACCOP’s representative to federal agencies, Congress and other associations regarding NACCOP’s views and legislative priorities within the higher education community, public safety, and beyond. Bill has also served as an Associate of D. Stafford & Associates since 2016 as well, teaching classes and participating in Clery Act Audits and Assessments.

Bill is a graduate of Eastern University, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Organizational Development, and Villanova University, where he earned a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice Administration.  Bill was certified as a NACCOP Clery Compliance Officer (CCO) as part of the program’s first cohort in July of 2017. Bill previously served a two-year term as President for the Northeast Colleges and Universities Security Association (NECUSA).

Cathy Cocks has been a higher education professional for over thirty years. Her work with D. Stafford & Associates focuses on Title IX investigations and training; assessment of student affairs policies, practices and services; and behavioral threat assessment. Cathy was the Director of Community Standards for the University of Connecticut for 14 years where she managed the student conduct process, which included managing all Title IX cases involving student respondents and chaired the University’s student threat assessment team. Prior to that, she held several positions within Residential Life at the University of Connecticut and Roger Williams University. 

She has been a faculty member for the Association for Student Conduct Administration’s (ASCA) Donald D. Gehring Academy teaching on subjects such as ethics, governance, threat assessment, media relations, and higher education trends. She was an affiliated faculty member for many years in the University of Connecticut’s Higher Education and Student Affairs Master’s program teaching “The Law, Ethics, and Decision-Making in Student Affairs.”

Cathy has co-authored the “Philosophy of Student Conduct” chapter in the 2nd edition of “Student Conduct Practice” (2020) and was a member of the writing team for CAS Standards’ Cross-functional Framework for Identifying and Responding to Behavioral Concerns.

Cathy is currently the Sergeant at Arms for the New England Chapter of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP) and is a Past President of the Association for Student Conduct Administration (ASCA). Cathy has served in a variety of leadership roles in NASPA Region I. 

She was the 2015 recipient of ASCA’s Donald D. Gehring Award. She is a past recipient of the NASPA Region I Mid-Level Student Affairs Professional Award and the NASPA Region I Continuous Service Award.

She earned her Master’s degree in Higher Education Administration from the University of Connecticut and Bachelor’s degree in Communications/Media from Fitchburg State University.

Dolores Stafford currently serves as the Executive Director of the National Association of Clery Compliance Officers and Professionals (NACCOP), a professional association for campus administrators who are responsible for managing Clery Act compliance. She also serves as President and CEO of D. Stafford & Associates, a professional services firm specializing in safety and security related issues on college campuses, including a specialization in Clery Act and Title IX compliance issues, through which she has provided consulting services since 1997.

Ms. Stafford served as the Chief of Police at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. from 1992 to 2010. She has 26 years of experience in the law enforcement and the security industries. She spent a total of 23 years in Campus Law Enforcement at the George Washington University, Butler University and Bucknell University.  Ms. Stafford has twenty years of experience overseeing a sexual assault crisis response team at GW and Butler University that she implemented and managed at both institutions. Ms. Stafford has experience in developing operating procedures and protocols in Behavioral Threat Assessment and has led such as team for more than five years at GW. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice from Mansfield University and has a Master's of Science Degree in Education from Bucknell University. 

Ms. Stafford led the GW Police Department as it became an accredited law enforcement agency with the Commission of Law Enforcement Accreditation (CALEA) in March of 2006 and an International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) Accredited Agency as of 2007. She is an active assessor for the CALEA and IACLEA. She was an active member of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators for 20 years and she served on the Board of Directors from 2000-2005. Ms. Stafford served as the 45^th President of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators in 2003-2004 and she was the first female to ever hold that office. She served as the Chair of the IACLEA Accreditation Commission from 2005-2008.

Ms. Stafford has testified at several congressional hearings regarding the Clery Act and  represented IACLEA as the primary negotiator during the 1999 and 2009 Negotiated Rule Making sessions.  In 2014, she was named an expert advisor to the Negotiated Rule Making Team that dealt with the implementation of the Violence Against Women Act.

Stafford has instructed more than 300 Clery Act/HEOA training classes for her colleagues around the country and has conducted several hundred audits/reviews of the compliance efforts at various institutions. She developed a train-the-trainer program for IACLEA, actively assisted Westat in development of the initial Clery Act Handbook for Campus Crime Reporting published by the Department of Education, and participated on the Department of Education’s Handbook Review Committee in 2011. Ms. Stafford also serves as a partner in NACCOP-AEGIS, LLC, a company specializing in software solutions for higher education. As Partner in NACCOP-AEGIS, LLC, Ms. Stafford was instrumental in developing CleryEdge, a powerful, integrated suite of software modules designed to improve Clery Act compliance. 

James Moore is the Senior Advisor for Clery Act Compliance and Campus Safety Operations at the United States Department of Education. He serves as the Federal Government’s leading expert on the Clery Act, the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act, and other campus safety and crime prevention initiatives. Mr. Moore also leads the Department’s Clery Act training, technical assistance, and outreach initiatives.

He is a frequent speaker and trainer on a range of campus safety issues, including sexual assault prevention and response, threat assessment, and substance abuse prevention. From 2014-2017, Mr. Moore also served on the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault.

Lindi J. Swope is the Director of Clery Compliance activities for D. Stafford & Associates. Lindi is an expert Clery compliance professional and instructor with more than 15 years’ experience in the field. Ms. Swope served as the Manager of Transportation Services and Compliance Activities at the George Washington University where she co-wrote the campus police department’s Clery compliance manual and was the lead coordinator for Clery compliance for the campus. Ms. Swope was charged with analyzing and counting crime data, publishing the institution’s ASR and maintaining all necessary files to demonstrate compliance. She developed relationships and collaborated with local law enforcement agencies as well as the U.S. Department of Education and worked closely with the University’s Housing, General Counsel and Student Affairs administrators. Additionally, Ms. Swope directed the University’s safety transportation service which transported over 160,000 students annually.

From April 2013 to December 2018, Ms. Swope served as the Director of the National Association of Clery Compliance Officers and Professionals (NACCOP). She has provided Clery Act consulting services and served as lead instructor for the Clery Act Compliance Training Academy for D. Stafford and Associates since 2011.

Ms. Swope obtained a B.A. in Psychology from the George Washington University and is an IACLEA Certified Clery Act Trainer.

Dr. Michael M. DeBowes is an experienced higher education administrator, author, and instructor. From 2007-2014, he served as the Director of Student Conduct & Academic Integrity at Old Dominion University, a large, public, metropolitan research university in southeastern Virginia. In this role, Dr. DeBowes oversaw the student conduct system for academic and nonacademic violations involving undergraduate and graduate students as well as recognized student organizations. Previously, Dr. DeBowes worked in the Center for Student Ethics and Standards at the University of Vermont.

From 2012-2014, Dr. DeBowes served as an Associate with D. Stafford & Associates (DSA). In 2014, he began his tenure with the National Association of Clery Compliance Officers and Professionals as Director of Research and Strategic Initiatives. Dr. DeBowes held the same title with DSA through September 2021 until being promoted to Vice President, Regulatory Compliance and Strategic Initiatives. In these roles, DeBowes provides a variety of consulting, training, and technical assistance services related to institutional compliance with the Clery Act and the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act. Dr. DeBowes serves as the Editor of the Journal of Clery Compliance Officers & Professionals and has been instrumental in the development of CleryEdge, a powerful, integrated suite of software modules designed to improve Clery Act compliance.

Dr. DeBowes graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Millersville University in 2004; a Master of Education degree in Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration (HESA) from the University of Vermont in 2006; an Education Specialist degree in Educational Leadership from ODU in 2011; and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Higher Education from ODU in 2014. His dissertation examined student conduct administrator knowledge of the statistical reporting obligations of the Clery Act and was recognized by the Association for Student Conduct Administration (ASCA) with the 2015 Dissertation of the Year Award. Dr. DeBowes has published three co-authored book chapters including a chapter on the Clery Act in Campus Crime: Legal, Social, and Policy Perspectives (4^th edition). Dr. DeBowes has authored numerous NACCOP whitepapers focusing on Clery Act and DFSCA compliance, and he has also contributed to industry and academic journals including the Security Journal, Campus Safety Magazine, Academic Perspectives in Higher Education, and The Vermont Connection. Dr. DeBowes has also served as an outside reviewer for the Journal of College and University Law and the International Journal of Communication.