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AB-1558 Postsecondary education: safety: credible threats.(2023-2024)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.

 Section 67387 is added to the Education Code, to read:

67387.
 (a) Each campus of the California Community Colleges and the California State University is required, and each campus of the University of California is requested, to take action after receiving a credible threat to student, faculty, or staff safety.
(b) (1) After receiving a threat to student, faculty, or staff safety each campus shall determine, through a third-party risk assessment, whether the threat is credible.
(2) For purposes of this section a credible threat includes, but is not limited to, all of the following:
(A) Making a criminal threat, as described in Section 422 of the Penal Code.
(B) Threatening to bring, or actually bringing, a weapon on campus.
(C) Lewd acts by faculty or staff in academic buildings.
(3) When making the determination if there is a credible threat no conviction is required.
(4) Any substantiated credible threat shall be included in the student or personnel file of the individual who made the threat.
(c) (1) If the campus determines that the threat is credible pursuant to subdivision (b), the campus shall determine whether the individual poses an immediate threat to the physical health or safety of any student, or other individual on campus, which justifies their removal from campus.
(2) If the individual is not removed from campus pursuant to paragraph (1), the campus may use interim measures, when appropriate, to ensure school and student safety. Interim measures include counseling, extensions of time or other course-related adjustments, modifications of work or class schedules, campus escort services, restrictions on contact between the parties, changes in work or housing locations, leaves of absence, increased security and monitoring of certain areas of campus, and other similar accommodations.
SEC. 2.
 If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.