Campus Safety & Police Committee

• Identify current public safety issues that impact the Humboldt community 
• Act as liaison between the campus community and UPD
• Receive regular updates and summary of activities of UPD, including current trends impacting the campus; 
• Examine and provide recommendations concerning matters of public safety, campus policy, or suggested community resources to positively impact community experience;
• Assist in describing the means for involving campus University Police Officers in the life of the university in ways that will create an environment that is the “most conducive to the intellectual, cultural, and personal development of its students” 
• Focus on harm reduction in policing and policy.

Campus Safety and Wellness

This pillar is focused on the overall concept of campus safety to include lighting, sign placement, cameras, facilities, housing insecurity, law enforcement, and how a safe environment can promote both physical and mental wellness.

Community Policing & Engagement and Communication 

This Pillar is focused on law enforcement working with the campus community to produce public safety. For university-focused policing that means engaging students in the process of community safety, including their voice in testimony about the problems facing the community as well as in joint problem solving.   

This pillar is focused on leveraging technology to provide opportunities to engage the campus community and improve communication.

This pillar is focused on the foundational principle that trust and legitimacy between law and enforcement and the community is based on engagement and communication.

Policy, Oversight, Financial Awareness and Accountability

This pillar is focused on a review of policies and procedures to ensure they reflect the values of the campus community. This pillar is also focused on creating processes and pathways to ensure there is sufficient oversight of law enforcement practices.

This pillar is focused on transparency within the budgeting process and ensuring departmental requests are in line with the universities strategic plan.

Recruitment, Selection, Training and Education
 

This pillar is focused on ensuring that an inclusive hiring and selection process exists. The process must be based on the values and traits the campus community identifies as key characteristics in a professional police officer.

This pillar is focused on the equitable treatment of the campus community. This pillar is also focused on ensuring that on-going education on the topic of race, gender, and sexual orientation  exists within the culture of UPD.

This Pillar is focused on ensuring officers are trained in a wide variety of categories to meet the needs of our campus community. In addition, it will be focused on educating the campus community on critical compliance and regulatory matters related to policing at the federal, state and local level.

Investigate practices and policies such as but not limited to: disarmament of campus police, rejection of lethal equipment funneled through program 1033, an establishment of social-based services founded on harm reduction for emergency calls made to UPD that do not require an officer present, and community engagement between UPD and the campus community.

Committee Leadership

• Chair: Staff Representation:  Yashvin Madhak
• Chair: Student Representation from Associated Students: Rosa Granados

Committee Membership

1. Representation from Equity Arcata - 
2. Staff Representation from the Office of Student Life - Molly Kresl
3. Resident Advisor (RA)
4. Staff Representation from the Office of Residence Life - Donyet
5. Student Representation from Associated Students (AS) - Gio
6. Student Representation from Associated Students (AS) - Rosa
7. Student Representation from Cultural Centers for Academic Excellence (4)
   Juan Guerrero (El Centro)
8. Staff Representation from SAPC -  Ana Bernal 
9. Student Representation from Check-It - 
10. Campus Advocate Team (CAT) - Paula Arrowsmith Jones
11. Staff Representation from the Student Health Center - Mira Friedman
12. Student at Large (Selected by the Dean of Students) Josefina Barrantes
13. Graduate Student Representative - Rosa Granados
14. Staff Representation from the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Dr. Ndura
15. Staff Representation from Facilities Management -  Travis Fleming
16. Faculty Representation -  Ashley Donnell
17. Faculty Representation - Amber Gaffney
18. Faculty Representation - 
19. Student Representation from Project Rebound Kory Lamberts 
20. Staff Representation from Off Campus Housing Dept. - Chant’e Catt
21. Staff Liaison for undocumented students- Dan Saveliff
22. Student Representative from ERC - 
23. Staff Representative from CAPS - Cedric Aaron
24.  Staff representation from the Dean of Students - Robert Keever

Ex-Officio Representation 

• UPD Chief of Police - Interim Chief Peter Cress
• APD Lieutenant- Bart Silvers
• Chief of Staff or Campus Legal Liaison-Sherie C. Gordon/ Dustin May
• Director, Employee Relations and Compliance - Dr. Scott Kasper
• Staff Representation from Title IX/DHR- Allan Ford