Bill Text: CA AB1654 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Student safety: crime reporting.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-08-29 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 222, Statutes of 2016. [AB1654 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1654-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1654	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  222
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  AUGUST 29, 2016
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  AUGUST 29, 2016
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 11, 2016
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JUNE 1, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 27, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 15, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  FEBRUARY 22, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Santiago

                        JANUARY 13, 2016

   An act to amend Section 67382 of the Education Code, relating to
student safety.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1654, Santiago. Student safety: crime reporting.
   The federal Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and
Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act) requires eligible
institutions of higher education participating in federal student
assistance financial grant programs or federal work study programs to
collect and annually prepare, publish, and distribute to current
students and employees, and to applicants for enrollment or
employment upon request, an annual security report containing
information with respect to the campus security policies and campus
crime statistics of that institution. The federal act further
requires that the institutions annually file statistics concerning
the occurrence of crimes on campus or on noncampus buildings or
property, with the United States Secretary of Education.
   The federal Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013
requires each of these institutions to include in these reports a
statement of policy regarding the institution's programs to prevent
domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking and
the procedures the institution will follow once an incident of
domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking has
been reported, as specified.
   Existing law requires the State Auditor, every 3 years, to report
the results of an audit of a sample of not less than 6 institutions
of postsecondary education that receive federal student aid, to
evaluate the accuracy of their statistics and the procedures used by
the institutions to identify, gather, and track data for publishing,
disseminating, and reporting accurate crime statistics in compliance
with the Clery Act, and to report the results of those audits to the
respective chairs of the Assembly Committee on Higher Education and
the Senate Committee on Education.
   This bill would require the State Auditor to include in this audit
an evaluation of the institutions' compliance with state law
governing crime reporting and the development and implementation of
student safety policies and procedures.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 67382 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   67382.  (a) (1)  On or before January 1, 2004, and every three
years thereafter, the State Auditor shall report the results of an
audit of a sample of not less than six institutions of postsecondary
education in California that receive federal student aid. The audit
shall do both of the following:
   (A) Evaluate the accuracy of the institutions' statistics and the
procedures used by the institutions to identify, gather, and track
data for publishing, disseminating, and reporting accurate crime
statistics in compliance with the requirements of the Jeanne Clery
Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act
(20 U.S.C. Sec. 1092(f)(1) and (5)).
   (B) Evaluate the institutions' compliance with state law governing
crime reporting and the development and implementation of policies
and procedures pursuant to this chapter.
   (2) The results of the annual audits described in paragraph (1)
shall be submitted to the respective chairs of the Assembly Committee
on Higher Education and the Senate Committee on Education.
   (b) The Legislature finds and declares that institutions of higher
education that are subject to the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus
Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1092
(f)(1) and (5)) should establish and publicize a policy that allows
victims or witnesses to report crimes to the campus police department
or to a specified campus security authority, on a voluntary,
confidential, or anonymous basis.