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67381
. (a) The Legislature reaffirms that campus law enforcement
agencies have the primary authority for providing police or security
services, including the investigation of criminal activity, to their
campuses.
(b) The Trustees of the California State University, the Regents
of the University of California, and the governing board of
independent postsecondary institutions, as defined, shall adopt rules
requiring each of their respective campuses to enter into written
agreements with local law enforcement agencies that clarify
operational responsibilities for investigations of Part 1 violent
crimes, sexual assaults, and hate crimes occurring on each campus.
(c) Local law enforcement agencies shall enter into written
agreements with campus law enforcement agencies if there are college
or university campuses of the governing entities specified in
subdivision (b) located in the jurisdictions of the local law
enforcement agencies.
(d) Each written agreement entered into pursuant to this section
shall designate which law enforcement agency shall have operational
responsibility for the investigation of each Part 1 violent crime,
sexual assault, and hate crime, and delineate the specific
geographical boundaries of each agency's operational responsibility,
including maps as necessary.
(e) A written agreement entered into pursuant to this section
shall be reviewed, updated if necessary, and made available for
public viewing by July 1, 2016, and every five years thereafter.
(f) Each agency shall be responsible for its own costs of
investigation unless otherwise specified in a written agreement.
(g) Nothing in this section shall affect existing written
agreements between campus law enforcement agencies and local law
enforcement agencies that otherwise meet the standards contained in
subdivision (d) or any existing mutual aid procedures established
pursuant to state or federal law.
(h) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the
authority of campus law enforcement agencies to provide police
services to their campuses.
(i) As used in this section, the following terms have the
following meanings:
(1) "Local law enforcement agencies" means city or county law
enforcement agencies with operational responsibilities for police
services in the community in which a campus is located.
(2) "Part 1 violent crimes" means willful homicide, forcible rape,
robbery, and aggravated assault, as defined in the Uniform Crime
Reporting Handbook of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(3) "Hate crime" means any offense described in Section 422.55 of
the Penal Code.
(4) "Sexual assault" includes, but is not limited to, rape, forced
sodomy, forced oral copulation, rape by a foreign object, sexual
battery, or threat of any of these.
(5) "Independent postsecondary institutions" means institutions
operating pursuant to Section 830.6 of the Penal Code or pursuant to
a memorandum of understanding as described in subdivision (b) of
Section 830.7 of the Penal Code.
(j) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Kristin
Smart Campus Safety Act of 1998.
(k) It is the intent of the Legislature by enacting this section
to provide the public with clear information regarding the
operational responsibilities for the investigation of crimes
occurring on university and college campuses by setting minimum
standards for written agreements to be entered into by campus law
enforcement agencies and local law enforcement agencies.