Uniform Campus Crime Report/Student Right to Know

As a recognized California State Law Enforcement Agency, the San José State University Police Department is required to provide the Department of Justice with a monthly report containing the number and type of criminal offenses committed within the jurisdiction of the UPD as well as citations issued and arrests made. This information is forwarded to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for inclusion in their annual publication, “Crime in the United States.”

The federal Clery Act requires the university to provide additional information to the community. Crimes that must be reported include murder, sex offenses (forcible and non-forcible), robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, manslaughter and arson. In addition, the university must report arrests or disciplinary referrals for liquor, drug and weapons offenses and hate crimes by classification.

The Clery Act requires any SJSU campus official having knowledge of criminal acts as defined by the Clery Act to report that information to the UPD for inclusion in the annual safety report.

Crime statistics for the City of San José are not included in this publication. The City of San José is one of the safest large cities in the United States. Crime statistics for the San José Police Department can be found on-line at www.sjpd.org.

Each year, the UPD contacts SJSU campus officials by email for information pertinent to the Clery Act. UPD asks all campus counselors to encourage their clients, when appropriate, to report criminal violations on a voluntary, confidential basis, for inclusion in the annual disclosure of crime statistics. Any information received in response is included in the UPD Annual Safety Report.

The SJSU Clery Act Annual Safety Report is the department’s student right to know report. The report is posted on the UPD web site (www.sjsupd.com and www.sjsu.edu/safetyreport), and a hard copy is printed and distributed annually to all SJSU Departments. Additional copies are available in the UPD lobby, or by calling the Police Records Unit at 408-924-2172. Portions of the report are also published in the SJSU schedule of classes and the Spartan Daily newspaper. In addition, a weekly crime blotter is posted on the UPD web site.

A complete breakdown of these statistics and statistics of criminal activity for other California State Universities can be found on the Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education web site: http://ope.ed.gov/security