Campus Security Authority

“Campus Security Authority” (CSA) is a Clery Act-specific term that encompasses four groups of individuals and organizations associated with an institution:

  1. ​A campus police department or a campus security department of an institution. At Shasta College this is our Campus Safety Department. All individuals who work for that department are Campus Security Authorities (CSA).
  2. Any individual or individuals who have responsibility for campus security but who do not constitute a campus security department. This may include individuals who monitor access into a campus facility, act as event security for sporting events or other large college events or provide a safe walk escort.
  3. Any individual or organization specified in an institution’s statement of campus security policy as an individual or organization to which students and employees should report criminal offenses.
  4. An official of an institution who has significant responsibility for student and campus activities, including, but not limited to, student housing, student discipline, faculty club advisors and campus judicial proceedings. An official is defined as any person who has the authority and the duty to take action or respond to particular issues on behalf of the institution. 

The function of a Campus Security Authority is to report to Campus Safety any allegations of Clery Act crimes that are reported to them in their capacity as a CSA. CSAs are not responsible for investigating incidents, only reporting.

We have released the new Keenan SafeColleges Campus Security Authority (CSA) online training program. We look forward to continuing to help each person identified as a CSA meet their annual training needs to assist the institution in complying with the Clery Act.

If you have been identified as a CSA for our campus, follow the steps below to complete your training:

  1. Follow the link to the Shasta College CSA Training Site page: 
  2. Your Login name is your Shasta College email address
  3. Click on Extra Training on the left
  4. Select the Policy folder then Campus Security Authority Training

To make a report as a CSA, please follow the link below:

Shasta College is required to disclose the following Clery Act crimes and Campus Security Authorities must report these crimes when they are reported to them in their capacity as a CSA. 

Clery Definition of Crimes 

The definitions for Murder/Non-Negligent Manslaughter, Manslaughter by Negligence, Rape, Robbery, Aggravated Assault, Burglary, Motor Vehicle Theft, Arson, Weapons Carrying, Possessing, Etc. Law Violations, Drug Abuse Violations, and Liquor Law Violations are from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program. The definitions of Fondling, Incest and Statutory Rape are from the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) of the UCR. Hate Crimes are classified according to the FBI’s UCR Hate Crime Data Collection Guidelines and Training Manual. Note that, although the law states that institutions must use the UCR Program definitions. Clery Act crime reporting does not have to meet all of the other UCR Program Standards.

The willful (non-negligent) killing of one human being by another. NOTE: Deaths caused by negligence, assaults with intent to murder and attempts to murder, suicides, accidental deaths, traffic fatalities, and justifiable homicides are excluded.

The killing of another person through gross negligence. 

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

An unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury.  This type of assault usually is accompanied by the use of a weapon or by means likely to produce death or great bodily harm.  It is not necessary that injury result from an aggravated assault when a gun, knife or other weapon is used which could or probably would result in a serious potential injury if the crime were successfully completed.

The unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or a theft.  For reporting purposes this definition includes: unlawful entry with intent to commit a larceny or a felony; breaking and entering with intent to commit a larceny; housebreaking; safe-cracking; and all attempts to commit any of the aforementioned.

The theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle. (Classify as motor vehicle theft all cases where automobiles are taken by persons not having lawful access, even though the vehicles are later abandoned - including joy riding.)

The willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, or personal property of another.

Sex Offenses

Penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim. This definition includes any gender of victim or perpetrator.

The touching of the private body parts of another person for the purpose of sexual gratification, without the consent of the victim, including instances where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her age or because of his/her temporary or permanent mental incapacity.

Sexual intercourse between persons who are related to each other within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law. 

Sexual intercourse with a person who is under the statutory age of consent.

Hate Crimes

A hate crime is a criminal offense that manifests evidence that the victim was intentionally selected because of the perpetrator’s bias against the victim.  Bias is a preformed negative opinion or attitude toward a group of persons based on their race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, national origin, gender, or gender identity. Statistics are reported for all Clery Act Primary Crimes (see definitions above) and larceny-theft, destruction/damage/vandalism, intimidation, and simple assault (see definitions below). 

A hate or bias related crime is not a separate, distinct crime, but is the commission of a criminal offense which was motivated by the offender's bias. For example, a subject assaults a victim, which is a crime. If the facts of the case indicate that the offender was motivated to commit the offense because of his bias against the victim's race, sexual orientation, etc., the assault is then also classified as a hate/bias crime. 

The unlawful taking, carrying, leading, or riding away of property from the possession or constructive possession of another. 

  • Constructive possession is the condition in which a person does not have physical custody or possession but is in a position to exercise dominion or control over a thing.

To willfully or maliciously destroy, damage, deface, or otherwise injure real or personal property, without the consent of the owner or person having custody or control of it. 

To unlawfully place another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words and/or other conduct, but without displaying a weapon or subjecting the victim to actual physical attack.

An unlawful physical attack by one person upon another where neither the offender displays a weapon, nor the victim suffers obvious severe or aggravated bodily injury involving apparent broken bones, loss of teeth, possible internal injury, severe laceration or loss of consciousness.

A felony or misdemeanor crimes of violence committed:

  • by a current or former spouse or intimate partner of the victim,
  • by a person with whom the victim shares a child in common,
  • by a person who is cohabitating with or has cohabitated with the victim as a spouse or intimate partner, 
  • by a person similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction in which the crime of violence occurred, or 
  • by any other person against an adult or youth victim who is protected from that person’s acts under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction in which the crime of violence occurred.

California Penal Code 13700 defines domestic violence as abuse committed against an adult or a minor who is a spouse, former spouse, cohabitant, former cohabitant, or person with whom the suspect has had a child or is having or has had a dating or engagement relationship. For purposes of this subdivision, “cohabitant” means two unrelated adult persons living together for a substantial period of time, resulting in some permanency of relationship.

In Section 242, the Penal Code defines battery as a "willful and unlawful use of force or violence against the person of another." Section 243(e)(1) of the Penal Code criminalizes battery within one of the specified familial or intimate relationships. Alternatively, a prosecutor can choose to charge the defendant with battery under Section 243(d) if the defendant "inflicted serious bodily injury" on the victim. Battery under Section 243(d) reflects a greater degree of harm suffered by the victim of domestic violence.

The Penal Code also criminalizes domestic violence under Section 273.5 when an individual's willful conduct leads to a "corporal injury resulting in a traumatic condition" suffered by a person with whom the individual has one of the familial or intimate relationships specified by the domestic violence laws of California.

Violence committed by a person who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim. The existence of such a relationship shall be determined based on the reporting party's statement with consideration to: (i) the length of the relationship; (ii) the type of relationship; and (iii) the frequency of interaction between the persons involved in the relationship.

Engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to— (A) fear for his or her safety or the safety of others; or (B) suffer substantial emotional distress.

For the purposes of this definition –

A. Course of conduct means two or more acts, including but not limited to, acts which the stalker directly, indirectly, or through third parties, by any action, method, device, or means—follows, monitors, observes, surveils, threatens, or communicates to or about, a person or interferes with a person’s property.
B. Reasonable person means a reasonable person under similar circumstances and with similar identities to the victim.
C. Substantial emotional distress means significant mental suffering or anguish that may, but does not necessarily, require medical or other professional treatment or counseling.

The violation of laws or ordinances prohibiting the manufacture, sale, purchase, transportation, possession, concealment, or use of firearms, cutting instruments, explosives, incendiary devices, or other deadly weapons.

Violations of state and local laws relating to the unlawful possession, sale, use, growing, manufacturing, and making of narcotic drugs.  The violation of laws prohibiting the production, distribution, and/or use of certain controlled substances and the equipment or devices utilized in their preparation and/or use. The unlawful cultivation, manufacture, distribution, sale, purchase, use, possession, transportation, or importation of any controlled drug or narcotic substance. The relevant substances include: opium or cocaine and their derivatives (morphine, heroin, codeine); marijuana; synthetic narcotics (Demerol, methadone); and dangerous non-narcotic drugs (barbiturates, Benzedrine).

The violation of state or local laws or ordinances prohibiting: the manufacture, sale, purchase, transportation, possession, or use of alcoholic beverages. (Drunkenness and driving under the influence are not included in this definition.)