How to Report Crimes on Campus:

Rules for Employees to Report Campus Crimes under the Federal Campus Security Act
and CUA Safety Practices

The Campus Security Act (the "Act") requires colleges to collect and report campus crime statistics.   The Act requires that any employee who is a "campus security authority" and receives a report, or is aware of certain crimes, to immediately report them to the public safety office.  Crimes to be reported under the Act are listed below.  In addition, CUA safety practices require the reporting of crimes of theft, threats of violence and assault.  Reports shall be made to the Department of Public Safety (DPS).

Report crimes to the Dispatcher, CUA Department of Public Safety at:

                       120 Leahy Hall                             ph.  (202)319-5111

CUA interprets campus security authority to mean all employees, including student employees, who work in a position where they control or monitor access to some part of campus (for example, Residence Hall Security Assistants, Resident Assistants and Area Coordinators on duty, security kiosk attendants, library monitors, and DPS officers); or employees who have significant responsibility for student and campus activities, including, but not limited to, student housing, student discipline, and campus judicial proceedings.  Pastoral or professional counselors are not considered a campus security authority when acting as a pastoral or professional counselor.

Immediately report to the DPS dispatcher any crimes that you become aware of that have occurred on campus, in a CUA building located off-campus, and/or on public property immediately adjacent or accessible to campus.

For purposes of publishing in the annual security report under the Campus Security Act, DPS will make public listed crimes that are reported in the following areas:

On campus: CUA's "Main Campus" between Michigan Ave. and Taylor St.; Harewood Rd. and John McCormack Rd.; DuFour Athletic Center and grounds; “West Campus” between the Basilica parking lot and Irving St., North Capitol St., John Paul II Cultural Center and Harewood Rd.; campus property south of Michigan Ave. ("South Campus"); "The Block" between 7^th and 8^th Streets, and Lawrence and Monroe Streets.

Off-campus: Any building owned or controlled* by CUA, including Theological College.

Public property immediately adjacent to or accessible from the CUA campus: Public property immediately adjacent to CUA includes all public streets bordering the Main Campus, West Campus, South Campus, The Block and the Dufour Athletic Center grounds.

*Includes any long term lease agreement.

Campus security authorities who are not DPS officers are cautioned never to attempt to apprehend or pursue a suspected criminal, but to report to the DPS Dispatcher or, if appropriate, to 911.  Information that student campus security authorities receive about crimes is confidential and should not be disclosed to anyone other than DPS or 911.

Crimes that must be reported to the DPS dispatcher by campus security authorities:

Criminal Homicide:  Murder, non-negligent, and negligent manslaughter.  Non-negligent manslaughter is the killing of a person through gross negligence.

Sex Offenses, Forcible or Non-forcible:  A forcible sex offense is any sexual act directed against another person, forcibly and/or against that person’s will; or not forcibly or against that person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent, i.e., intoxicated.  Non-forcible sex offenses are acts of "unlawful, non-forcible sexual intercourse," e.g., incest or statutory rape.

Robbery:  The taking, or attempt to take anything of value from the control, custody, or care of a person by force/threat of force/violence and/or putting the victim in fear.

Aggravated Assault:  An unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury.  This offense is usually accompanied by the use of a weapon or by means likely to produce death or great bodily harm.

Burglary:  The unlawful entry (breaking and entering) into a building or other structure with the intent to commit a felony or theft.

Arson:  Willful or malicious burning or an attempt to burn a dwelling, house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, or personal property.

Motor Vehicle Theft:  The theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle.

Theft:  Unlawful taking of another's property.

Threats of Violence:  Threats of bodily injury to another person.

Assault:  Unlawful contact causing bodily injury.

Any of these crimes that manifest evidence that the victim was intentionally selected because of the victim's actual or perceived race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or disability must be reported as hate crimes. Effective August 14, 2008, the list of hate crimes that must be reported has been modified to include the following crimes: larceny-theft, simple assault; intimidation, and destruction, damage or vandalism of property. (20 USC 1092 (f)(1)(F)(ii))

Some full-time employees in student life or public safety may also have responsibility for reporting arrests for (or referrals to the campus disciplinary system for) certain liquor law violations, drug law violations, and illegal weapons possession.

If you have any doubts whether to report something that has occurred, report it. 

The Department of Public Safety can then determine whether the event constitutes a crime that has to be collected and statistically reported.  Your cooperation in timely reporting assists the university to issue timely warnings to the campus community.

All crimes must be reported immediately.

 

 

Produced by the CUA Office of General Counsel and Department of Public Safety