Plain English Breakdown
The official digest ends abruptly with 'By impos', indicating missing information regarding potential penalties for non-compliance or specific funding mechanisms beyond the removal of previous funding conditions for community colleges.
Student Safety: Human Trafficking Training, Reporting, and Policies
This law requires colleges to train staff on human trafficking, track related crimes, update agreements with police, create new safety policies, and forward reports of human trafficking to law enforcement.
What This Bill Does
- Requires postsecondary schools to include information about human trafficking in annual employee training.
- Mandates that campus officials record reported incidents of human trafficking alongside other crimes like violence and theft.
- Updates written agreements between campuses and local police to cover investigations into human trafficking cases.
- Orders colleges to adopt new policies defining human trafficking as a crime and listing physical or mental signs it may be happening.
- Requires schools participating in the Cal Grant Program to forward reports of human trafficking received by campus security authorities to law enforcement immediately, or as soon as possible.
Who It Names or Affects
- University of California campuses
- California State University campuses
- Community colleges
- Private and independent postsecondary educational institutions
Terms To Know
- Human trafficking
- A state and federal crime involving the exploitation of people.
- Cal Grant Program
- State-funded student financial aid programs in California.
- Postsecondary educational institutions
- Colleges and universities that provide education after high school, including UCs, CSUs, community colleges, and private schools.
Limits and Unknowns
- The official text provided is truncated at the end of section (6), so details about potential penalties or funding for these changes are missing.
- It is unclear if specific new funds have been allocated by the Legislature to help community colleges pay for these requirements, though the bill removes previous conditions requiring such funds.