Report 2020-032 Recommendation 1 Responses

Report 2020-032: Clery Act: Some California Colleges and Universities Are Not Accurately Reporting Campus Crime Statistics and Safety Policies as Federal Law Requires (Release Date: May 2021)

Recommendation #1 To: University of California, Irvine

To ensure that it accurately reports crime statistics in its annual security report, Irvine should, by November 2021, strengthen its written procedures to clearly describe the processes it will follow for identifying and reporting Clery reportable crimes and ensure that its staff follows them.

6-Month Agency Response

UCIPD, UCI Compliance and UCI Campus Counsel convened and updated the UCI Clery Act Compliance Procedures. The procedures were also reviewed by a third party with expertise in Clery Act compliance. The updated procedures were published on the UCI Policies and Procedures webpage on October 8, 2021. http://policies.uci.edu/policies/procs/905-50.php. To ensure that staff follow the procedures UCI included a quarterly review of Clery crime classifications within the UCI Clery Act procedures.

UCI considers this recommendation as completed.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 6-Month Status: Fully Implemented

60-Day Agency Response

UCI will create, by November 2021, clear written procedures to its existing Clery Act Compliance Procedures; setting forth the process on how to identify and report Clery reportable crimes and will ensure UCI's staff follows them. The persons responsible for creating and implementing these additional procedures are: UCIPD representative, Compliance Representative, and Campus Counsel Representative. UCI will convene campus partners in August with an October 1 goal date for completion.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: Pending

All Recommendations in 2020-032

Agency responses received are posted verbatim.