BILL NUMBER: AB 2533	CHAPTERED  09/23/02

	CHAPTER  804
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 23, 2002
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 22, 2002
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 25, 2002
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 22, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 20, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 5, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 24, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 1, 2002

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Jackson
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Alquist, Havice, Lowenthal, and
Matthews)

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2002

   An act to add Section 67382 to the Education Code, relating to
postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2533, Jackson.  Postsecondary education:  campus crime
reporting.
   Existing law establishes the California Postsecondary Education
Commission as the statewide postsecondary education coordinating and
planning agency, which serves as a fiscal and program adviser to the
Governor and the Legislature on postsecondary educational policy.
The federal Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and
Campus Crime Statistics Act requires that 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 act further requires that the institutions
annually file statistics concerning the occurrence of crimes on
campus or on noncampus buildings or property, with the federal
Secretary of Education.
   This bill would require the State Auditor, by January 1, 2004, and
every 3 years thereafter, 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 Higher Education Committee and the Senate Education
Committee.  The bill would further require the commission to provide
on its Internet Web site a link to each California institution of
higher education's Web site that includes that institution's criminal
statistics information.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 67382 is added to the Education Code, 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, 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 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)).
   (2) The results of the annual audits described in paragraph (1)
shall be submitted to the respective chairs of the Assembly Higher
Education Committee and the Senate Education Committee.
   (b) The California Postsecondary Education Commission shall
provide on its Internet Web site a link to the Internet Web site of
each California institution of higher education that includes on that
Web site the institution's criminal statistics information.
   (c) 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.