Campus security authority

Campus Security Authority (CSA) 

• What is a CSA? 

- All staff and faculty at a Police Department or Campus Safety Department of a College campus or University. 

- Any individual who has responsibility for campus security but is not a member of the Campus Police or Campus Safety Department (e.g. parking enforcement staff, special event venue security, community service officers). 

- Any individual or organization specified in the College or University’s statement of campus security policy as an individual or organization to which students and employees should report criminal offenses. 

- Any official of the College who has a significant responsibility for student and campus activities such as: 

Athletics Department Athletics Director Department Chair Athletics Coaches 

Athletic Trainers 

Counseling Department Counselors DRC Counselors 

Student Services 

Dean of Student Success 

Director of Student Success and Equity 

Director of Student Services Director of Financial Aid 

Director of Enrollment 

Director of Career Education 

Director of Dual Enrollment 

Student Life Program Manager 

Gear-up Program Manager 

Outreach & Rising Scholars Program Manager 

Program Director - Title V 

All EOPS Staff 

All Student Services Office Staff 

All DRC Staff 

All VRC Staff 

All Financial Aid Staff 

All A&R Staff 

Campus Safety 

All Campus Safety Staff 

Nursing Program Associate Dean of Health Careers Department Chair Nursing Program 

Clubs and Organizations Active Club Advisors 

Library Staff 

CSA Reporting Procedure 

If you receive a report, or otherwise become aware of the occurrence of one of the crimes listed below, please do the following: 

• If the incident indicates the possibility of an imminent community threat, inform Campus Safety or Porterville Police Department immediately. 

• “Good faith” confidential, second hand or anonymous reports shall be accepted. 

• Encourage the Survivor(s) and/or witness(es) to report the incident to Campus Safety or the Police 

• If the incident reported is a sexual assault or other violent crime:

- Inform the Survivor(s) and/or witness(es) of the support services available 

- Actively support the Survivor(s) and/or witness(es) in accessing these services. 

• Complete the Crime/Incident Report Form and handle as a “confidential” document. 

• Deliver the documents to: Safety and Security Manager or Campus Safety Officer II at Maintenance and Operations building, room M/O-02. If you have any questions or need assistance in completing this form, contact Campus Safety at: Collegesafety@portervillecollege.edu 

• The Department of Campus Safety will use the information submitted to determine the appropriate category for the crime in the Annual Security Report. 

CSA Crime Definitions 

Negligent Manslaughter: 

The killing of another person through gross negligence. (Attempts are classified as aggravated assaults) 

Burglary: 

The unlawful entry (or attempt to enter) into a defined structure with the intent to commit a theft or any felony. (Includes attempts but excludes vehicle burglary.) 

Murder and Non-negligent Manslaughter: 

The willful (non-negligent) killing of a human being by another. (Attempts are classified as aggravated assaults) 

Motor Vehicle Theft: 

Taking of a motor vehicle (as defined) without the consent of the owner with the intent to either permanently or temporarily deprive the owner of the vehicle. (Includes attempts and joyriding) 

Robbery: 

The taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody, or control of a person(s) by force or threat of violence and/or fear. 

Arson: 

The willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn (w/o the intent to defraud) a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, or personal property of another, etc. (Includes attempts) 

Aggravated Assault: 

An unlawful attack of another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury accomplished by the use of a weapon or means likely to produce death or great bodily harm. It is not necessary that an injury results when a gun, knife or other weapon was used but which could have resulted in serious injury. (Includes attempts) 

Domestic Violence: 

The term “domestic violence” includes felony or misdemeanor crimes of violence committed: 

- by a current or former spouse or intimate partner of the victim 

- by a person with whom the victim shares a child in common 

- by a person who is cohabitating with the victim as a spouse or intimate partner 

- by a person similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction in which the crime of violence occurred 

- by any other person against an adult or youth victim who is protected from that person’s acts under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction where the crime occurred. 

Sex Offenses: 

Any sexual act directed against another person, without the consent of the victim, including instances where the victim is incapable of giving consent. 

• Rape: the penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim. The definition of rape includes forcible rape, sodomy, and sexual assault with an object. 

- Forcible rape: The carnal knowledge of a person, without the consent of the victim, including instances where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her age or because of his/her temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity. 

- Sodomy: Oral or anal sexual intercourse with another person, without the consent of the victim, including instances where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her age or because of his/her temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity. 

- Sexual Assault with An Object: to use an object or instrument to unlawfully penetrate, however slightly, the genital or anal opening of the body of another person, without the consent of the victim, including instances where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her age or because of his/her temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity. 

• Fondling: the touching of the private body parts of another person for the purpose of sexual gratification, without the consent of the victim, including instances where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her age or because of his/her temporary or permanent mental capacity. 

• Incest: nonforcible sexual intercourse between persons who are related to each other within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law. 

• Statutory Rape: nonforcible sexual intercourse with a person who is under the statutory age of consent 

Stalking: “Stalking” means: 

• Engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to: 

- Fear for his/her safety or the safety of others; or 

- Suffer substantial emotional distress 

• For the purposes of this definition: 

- Course of conduct: means two or more acts, including, but not limited to, acts in which the stalker directly, indirectly, or through third parties, by any action, method, device or means – follows, monitors, observes, surveils, threatens, or communicates to or about, a person, or interferes with a person’s property 

- Substantial emotional distress: means significant mental suffering or anguish that may, but does not necessarily require medical or other professional treatment or counseling 

- Reasonable person: means–a reasonable person in the victim’s circumstances 

Dating Violence: 

The term “dating violence” means violence committed by a person who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim: 

• the existence of such a relationship shall be determined by the victim with consideration of the length of the relationship, the type of relationship and the frequency of interaction between the persons involved in the relationship 

• For the purposes of this definition: 

- dating violence includes sexual or physical abuse or the threat of such abuse 

- dating violence does not include acts covered under the definition of domestic violence 

Hate Crime: 

A criminal act involving one/more of the listed crimes which was motivated by bias against any person or group of persons, or the property of any person or group of persons because of the ethnicity, race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability of the person or group, or bias based upon the perception that the person or group has one or more of those characteristics. 

Simple Assault: 

An unlawful physical attack by one person upon another where neither the offender displays a weapon, nor the victim suffers obvious severe or aggravated bodily injury involving apparent broken bones, loss of teeth, possible internal injury, severe laceration, or loss of consciousness. 

Larceny-Theft (Except Motor Vehicle Theft): 

The unlawful taking, carrying, leading, or riding away of property from the possession or constructive possession of another. Attempted larcenies are included. Embezzlement, confidence games, forgery, worthless checks, etc., are excluded. 

Intimidation: 

To unlawfully place another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words and/or other conduct, but without displaying a weapon or subjecting the victim to actual physical attack. 

Destruction/Damage/Vandalism of Property: 

To willfully or maliciously destroy, damage, deface, or otherwise injure real or personal property without the consent of the owner or the person having custody or control of it. 

On-campus property: 

Any building or property owned or controlled by the College within the same reasonably contiguous geographic area and used by the College in direct support of, or in a manner related to, the College's educational purpose, including any buildings or property that is owned by the College but controlled by another person and which is frequently used by students and supports institutional purposes such as a food or other retail vendor. (Excluding residential apartments) 

Non-campus property: 

Any building owned or controlled by a student organization that is officially recognized by the College; or any building or property owned or controlled by the College that is used in direct support of, or in relation to the College’s educational purposes, is frequently used by students, and is not within the same reasonably contiguous geographic area of the College or University 

Good Faith Report: 

To make a report, state laws require that you have reasonable suspicion that abuse, or a crime has/is occurring. 

1. Information can be from a witness, 3rd party, victim or offender. Meaning, you do not need proof that a crime took place, but you have a reasonable basis for believing that the information is not simply rumor or hearsay. That is, there is little or no reason to doubt the validity of the information. 

2. CSAs are not responsible for determining authoritatively whether a crime took place, nor must a finding of guilt or responsibility be made in order to report the crime, that is the function of law enforcement personnel. 

Public property: 

All public property, including thoroughfares, streets, sidewalks, parking facilities, that is within the campus, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from campus.