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67381.1
. (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 governing board of each community college district 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 occurring on each campus.
(c) Local law enforcement agencies shall enter into written
agreements with community college campus law enforcement agencies if
there are community college campuses 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 and
delineate the specific geographical boundaries of each agency's
operational responsibility, including maps as necessary.
(e) Written agreements regarding community college law enforcement
agencies entered into pursuant to this section or pursuant to
Section 67381 as that section read before January 1, 2016, shall be
available for public viewing.
(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 community college 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 community college 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.
(j) 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 community college campuses by setting minimum standards
for written agreements to be entered into by community college campus
law enforcement agencies and local law enforcement agencies.
(k) (1) Upon the governing board of a community college district
adopting a rule requiring each of its campuses to update an agreement
entered into pursuant to this section or pursuant to Section 67381
as that section read before January 1, 2016, the governing board of
the community college district shall be treated as a governing entity
specified in subdivision (b) of Section 67381 and the community
college district and its campuses shall be subject to the
requirements of Section 67381 instead of this section.
(2) The Legislature encourages the governing board of each
community college district to adopt a rule requiring each of its
respective campuses to update these agreements.