§ 10a-55a — Uniform campus crime and safety incident reports. Emergency response plans.

Connecticut § 10a-55a

• Jurisdiction: Connecticut
• Title 10a: State System of Higher Education
• Ch. 185: Administration of State System

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(a) Each institution of higher education shall annually prepare a uniform campus crime and safety incident report concerning crimes committed and accidents occurring in the immediately preceding calendar year within the geographical limits of the property owned or under the control of such institution. The portions of such report concerning criminal offenses shall be in accordance with the uniform crime reporting system pursuant to section 29-1c, provided such report is limited to those offenses included in part I of the most recently published edition of the Uniform Crime Reports for the United States as authorized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Department of Justice, sexual assault under section 53a-70b of the general statutes, revision of 1958, revised to January 1, 2019, or sections 53a-70, 53a-70a, 53a-71, 53a-72a, 53a-72b and 53a-73a, stalking under sections 53a-181c, 53a-181d and 53a-181e and family violence as designated under section 46b-38h. The state police, local police departments and special police forces established pursuant to section 10a-156b shall cooperate with institutions of higher education in preparing such reports. Institutions with more than one campus shall prepare such reports for each campus. (b) Each annual report prepared pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall include (1) the number of full-time equivalent students, (2) the number of full-time equivalent employees, (3) the number of students and employees residing in campus housing, (4) for any accident that occurred during the immediately preceding calendar year within the geographical limits of the property owned or under the control of an institution of higher education, including, but not limited to, campuses or dormitories in another country owned or under the control of an institution of higher education for the purposes of an international studies or international exchange program, (A) the number of such accidents that resulted in serious physical injury, as defined in section 53a-3 , and (B) the number of such accidents that resulted in death, and (5) for each category of criminal offense, the number of incidents reported and the crime rate. The crime rate shall be equal to the number of incidents reported divided by the total number of full-time equivalent students and employees. (c) On or before October 1, 2007, each institution of higher education and private career school, as defined in section 10a-22a , shall have an emergency response plan. On or before October 1, 2007, and annually thereafter, each institution of higher education and private career school shall submit a copy of its emergency response plan to (1) the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection, and (2) local first responders. Such plan shall be developed in consultation with such first responders and shall include a strategy for notifying students and employees of the institution or school and visitors to such institution or school of emergency information. (d) Each institution of higher education shall notify, in writing, each person who submits an application for admission to the institution, each new employee at the time of employment and all students and employees annually at the beginning of each academic year of the availability of the report prepared pursuant to subsection (a) of this section and shall, upon request, provide the most recent report to any such applicant, employee or student.

Legislative History

(P.A. 90-259, S. 2; P.A. 92-83, S. 1; P.A. 07-208, S. 3; P.A. 11-48, S. 285; 11-51, S. 154; P.A. 14-11, S. 1; P.A. 16-15, S. 27; P.A. 19-189, S. 1; P.A. 21-184, S. 1; P.A. 22-123, S. 32.) History: P.A. 92-83 added sexual assault offenses to those required to be reported; P.A. 07-208 added new Subsec. (c) re emergency response plans and redesignated existing Subsec. (c) as Subsec. (d), effective July 1, 2007; pursuant to P.A. 11-48, “Commissioner of Higher Education” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “president of the Board of Regents for Higher Education” in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 11-51 amended Subsec. (c)(1) by replacing “Commissioners of Public Safety and Emergency Management and Homeland Security” with “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection”, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 14-11 amended Subsec. (a) by changing the annual reporting deadline from September 1 to October 1 and adding stalking and family violence to the list of reportable crimes, effective July 1, 2014; P.A. 16-15 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “president of the Board of Regents for Higher Education” with “president of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities”, effective July 1, 2016; P.A. 19-189 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “53a-70b” with “section 53a-70b of the general statutes, revision of 1958, revised to January 1, 2019” and made a technical change; P.A. 21-184 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting “On or before October 1, 1991, and annually thereafter, each” and “in such manner as the president of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities shall prescribe”, adding reference to safety incident and criminal offenses re report and requiring report to include accidents, and amended Subsec. (b) by adding new Subdiv. (4) re reporting of accidents that result in serious physical injury and death and redesignating existing Subdiv. (4) as Subdiv. (5), and made technical and conforming changes, effective July 1, 2021; P.A. 22-123 amended Subsec. (c) by changing “private occupational school” to “private career school”, effective July 1, 2022.