California Code of Regulations › Title 5 - Education › Division 1 - California Department of Education › Chapter 2 - Pupils › Subchapter 3 - Health and Safety of Pupils › Article 7 - Safe Schools Assessment Program › Section 702 - Guidelines for Reporting and Required Documentation

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
Site or program administrators and school district and
						county office of education superintendents shall use (1) crime and hate
						motivated incident classifications based on existing statutes, as specified
						above in Section
						700(b) and (d),
						(2) reporting guidelines as specified in
						subsection (a) below, and (3) guidelines for required documentation as
						specified in subsection (b) below to complete the reporting procedures as
						specified above in Section
						701.
(a) Reporting guidelines
The site or program administrator or designee shall
						report a crime or hate motivated incident when it has been determined that a
						reportable crime or hate motivated incident, as specified above in Section
						700(b) and (d),
						has been committed on a school location, as specified above in Section
						700(f). If more
						than one crime or hate motivated incident is committed during an occurrence,
						the most serious crime or incident in the judgment of the site or program
						administrator or designee shall be reported. The suspect(s) need not be
						apprehended for a crime or hate motivated incident to be reportable. The site
						or program administrator or designee may consult with local law enforcement to
						confirm that the occurrences reported on the forms are crimes or hate motivated
						incidents as defined in statute.
(b) Required documentation
The school district or county office of education
						superintendent responsible for reporting school crime and hate motivated
						incident data shall make available, for not less than three years from the date
						the report was submitted, supporting data which verifies information contained
						on the California Safe Schools Assessment School Crime and Incident Reporting
						Form (July 1, 2001). Such data shall include, but not be limited to, reports to
						local law enforcement officers and suspension and expulsion reports which have
						been reported to the respective local governing board, for the crime
						classifications specified in Education Code section
						48915(a) through
						(d); and insurance claims, maintenance
						records, and other documents to verify economic loss, if applicable. In
						addition, staff should be available to participate in interviews during site
						visits from the California Department of Education.
1. New
						section filed 9-13-95 as an emergency; operative 9-13-95 (Register 95, No. 37).
						A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 1-11-96 or emergency
						language will be repealed by operation of law on the following
						day.
2. Certificate of Compliance as to 9-13-95 order transmitted to
						OAL 1-4-96 and filed 2-13-96 (Register 96, No. 7).
3. Amendment of
						subsection (b) filed 8-4-98; operative 8-4-98 pursuant to Government Code
						section
						11343.4(d)
						(Register 98, No. 32).
4. Amendment filed 8-1-2001; operative
						8-1-2001 pursuant to Government Code Section
						11343.4
						(Register 2001, No. 31).
Note: Authority cited: Section
						  33031,
						  Education Code; and Section
						  628.1, Penal
						  Code. Reference: Sections
						  628-
						  628.6, Penal
						  Code.