Students injured in a December shooting at Brown University filed lawsuits alleging the Ivy League school failed to provide adequate building security, surveillance, and monitoring. The complaints contend the Barus and Holley engineering building was “open and accessible without meaningful entry restriction,” and that Tanner Auditorium—the shooting location—lacked individualized authorization controls for entry. The plaintiffs also allege prior warnings were ignored, including concerns raised by a custodian who reported suspicious behavior by the attacker, describing him repeatedly examining the building and auditorium during exam preparation and “casing” the campus facility. Brown’s litigation exposure is heightened by the lawsuits’ focus on negligent premises liability, arguing that the university’s integrated urban campus design did not absolve it from maintaining reasonably safe access controls. The case adds to a growing docket of higher-ed campus safety claims that turn on whether institutions met standards for securing facilities and responding to credible threat indicators.