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The Foothill-De Anza Police Department is responsible for gathering crime statistics, providing transparency to the pubic and reporting them to the Department of Education, the FBI and the public. Stay educated and informed on what's happening on campus and in the surrounding community by reviewing the Police Botter and Clery crime statistics below.

Clery Crime Report

 

In compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act and the recent VAWA and Campus SAVE amendments, Foothill-De Anza Community College District provides this Annual Security Report for students, faculty and staff concerning security policies and the number of reported crimes and arrests occurring on our campuses.

The Jeanne Clery Act requires colleges and universities to report campus crime data, support victims of violence, and publicly outline the policies and procedures they have put into place to improve campus safety. The purpose of the Clery Act is to help ensure that members of the campus community are provided with information that can help them make informed decisions about their safety.

Foothill-De Anza Community College District 2025 Clery Act Annual Security Report

The Annual Security Report includes statistics for the previous three years concerning reported crimes that occurred on campus; in certain off-campus buildings or property owned or controlled by Foothill-De Anza Community College District; and on public property within, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from, the campus.

The report also includes institutional policies concerning campus security, such as policies concerning sexual assault, and other matters. This report is prepared in cooperation with the local law enforcement agencies surrounding our campuses and education center, along with the Office of Student Affairs at each college. Each entity provides updated information on their educational efforts and programs to comply with the Clery Act.

Our crime statistics are sent to the California Department of Justice, FBI and the District's Chancellor's Office for inclusion in the state and federal crime statistics along with Clery information.

You can also obtain a hard copy of the Annual Security Report by contacting Joe Mauss, [email protected] (650) 949-7513.

 

More About The Clery Act

 

The Clery Act is named in memory of Jeanne Clery, a freshman at Lehigh University who was murdered in her dorm room in 1986. Her killer went through three propped-open doors in order to get to her room. If the college would have made this information available to students, Jeanne would have been aware of the 38 violent on-campus crimes that happened in the three years before her murder, as well as the 181 occurrences of propped-open doors in the dorm in the four months preceding her death.

After Jeanne's death, her parents Connie and Howard Clery lobbied for revolutionary policy changes that would eventually take form as the Jeanne Clery Act. Educators, families, and legislators had an open dialog about campus safety for the first time in our country’s history.

 

Police Blotter

 

ThePolice Blotter is a crime, incident and activity log that contains information entered by dispatch,CSO's, call takers, and the resulting action(s) by campus police officers for each call that comes into Foothill-De Anza Community College District Police dispatch.

The Annual Report required by the Clery Act contains all Clery Act defined crimes which occurred on campus locations but does not include all incidents reported in the Police Blotter. The Crime, Incident and Activity Log captures incidents, both on and off campus, which are reported to the campus police department and also includes self initiated activity.

You can find and download the Foothill-De Anza CCD Police blotter call log and brief description of the cases here: https://police.fhda.edu/_blotter/index.html

 

Hazing

 

Hazing in any form will not be tolerated within the Foothill-De Anza Community College District. Such conduct is contrary to the District’s commitment to student well-being and to maintaining a safe, respectful, educational environment where the dignity of every member of our campus community is protected.

Hazing reporting is a part of a newly enacted amendments to the Clery Act, in accordance with federal requirements. Hazing was previously not a standalone crime category in Clery Act reporting but is now included as a legally required reporting category. The updated federal guidelines now require all colleges and universities that receive federal funding to track and disclose hazing incidents in their annual security reports starting in 2026.

Pursuant to the Clery Act, any designated Campus Security Authority (CSA) must report incidents of hazing. New Clery Act amendment requires reporting of hazing incidents statistics will first be included in the 2026 annual security report (2025) statistics. There are three components that define hazing:

  1. It occurs in a group context
  2. Humiliating, degrading, or endangering behavior
  3. Happens regardless of an individual’s willingness to participate

Definition of Hazing

Any intentional, knowing, or reckless act committed by a person against another person regardless of the willingness of such other person to participate, in connection with initiation, affiliation, or continued membership in a student organization, that creates a risk of or causes physical or psychological injury beyond the reasonable risks of normal participation in the district or organization.

Examples of Hazing

  • Abducting members and transporting them on/off campus
  • Forcing/requiring members to complete calisthenics or rigorous exercises
  • Forced consumption of any substance, including food, drugs, alcohol, water, or any beverage; or any items individually or in combination
  • Marching in a single file line, intimidation, forced nudity or sexual acts

A student organization may include a student club, society, association, athletic team, club sports team, fraternity, sorority, band, or student government.

How to Intervene

If you find yourself in a situation where you or someone you know may be experiencing hazing behavior, follow the 5D’s of bystander intervention.

  1. Distract: interrupt the situation without directly confronting the offender by causing a distraction
  2. Delegate: seek help from someone else; often, this will be someone you trust or a campus authority; police department, advisor, counselor, student involvement, student conduct, a close friend
  3. Document: make a note of a situation, taking a video, or even photographs can help campus staff in assessing an incident
  4. Delay: Check in with the person who was being harassed or hazed after the incident
  5. Direct: Directly intervene in the moment to prevent a problem or situation from happening

Reporting Hazing Incidents

Immediate Danger? Call 911. If you or anyone else has ever witnessed or participated in Hazing, please report it. Foothill-De Anza Community College District will investigate all reports of hazing behavior. If you have a concern with a college employee or student; behavioral concerns, worrisome behavior, student code of conduct violations, or hazing incidents, you can report it anonymously here: 

Foothill: https://foothill.edu/bit/ 

De Anza: https://www.deanza.edu/judicial-affairs/report.html

If you observe suspicious vehicles, suspicious circumstances, disruptive, strange, threatenning, or unusual behavior on campus, call 911 or (408) 924-8000 from your cell phone.

Hazing Investigation Process

All reported acts of hazing committed by students or impacting students shall be reported to the TITLE IX Compliance Officer or their designee for appropriate investigation and sanctioning processes.

 

UCR Crime Reporting

 

The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The program generates reliable statistics for use in law enforcement, and also provides information for the public, the media, researchers, and criminal justice students. The program has been providing crime statistics since 1930.

The UCR Program includes data from more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies nationwide, including local, county, state, tribal, federal, and campus agencies. Agencies participate voluntarily.  

Each year, the Foothill-De Anza Police Department reports crime statistics to the California Department of Justice, which in turn, forwards the information to the UCR Program. Note that the statistics may change as reports are updated or revised as new information is received. The FBI then uses that information to publish their annual Uniform Crime Report. The latest UCR can be found at the Universal Crime Reporting page at the FBI.