Report 2020-032 Recommendation 9 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 #9 To: San Joaquin Delta College

To ensure that all security policies are included in its annual security report, San Joaquin should, by November 2021, establish procedures requiring its staff to review all security policies for compliance with the Clery Act requirements, identify missing or inadequate policies, correct them, and ensure that they are disclosed to the public in compliance with federal law.

6-Month Agency Response

Our ASR has been completely re-written and expanded to include all of the recommendations noted in the audit. A copy of the completed report was disclosed to the public on October 1, 2021, and is currently available for download at police.deltacollege.edu. Two particular cases that were, in the opinion of the auditors, under and over-reported, were also corrected during the entry into the Campus Safety Survey website, which was also completed on October 01, 2021.

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

60-Day Agency Response

Prior to the audit, the District was already in the process of updating its policies. They are currently being reviewed by our lawyers and are going through the shared governance process. While our goal is to have them completed by 11/27/2021, the shared governance process can be unpredictable and we would like to err on the side of caution.

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

All Recommendations in 2020-032

Agency responses received are posted verbatim.