CSA Resources

As a CSA, it is imperative that you take a few minutes to understand the responsibility of this designation. If someone reports a criminal offense to you, you must report the offense to Campus Safety as soon as possible so the crime can be evaluated for an Emergency or Timely Warning Notification for the Pacific Lutheran community.

Take a report and gather the information the person is willing to tell you. You don’t have to prove what happened, investigate the incident or determine who was at fault.

Be sure to document:

• Who was involved (victim and/or suspect) – not mandatory
• When (date/time) the crime or incident occurred
• When (date/time) it was reported to you
• Where the reported criminal offense occurred

Clery Act Reportable Criminal Offenses

1. Murder and Non-Negligent Manslaughter
2. Negligent Manslaughter
3. Sexual Assault
   1. • Rape
      • Fondling
      • Incest
      • Statutory Rape
4. Robbery
5. Aggravated Assault
6. Burglary
7. Motor Vehicle Theft
8. Arson
9. Domestic Violence
10. Dating Violence
11. Stalking
12. Hate Crimes
    1. • Race
       • Religion
       • Gender
       • Gender Identity
       • Sexual Orientation
       • Ethnicity
       • National Origin
       • Disability
13. Liquor Law Violations
14. Drug Law Violations
15. Weapons Law Violations
16. Hazing

Murder/Non-Negligent Manslaughter: the willful (non-negligent) killing of one human being by another. Note: Deaths caused by negligence, attempts to kill, assaults to kill, suicides, accidental deaths, and justifiable homicides are excluded.

Manslaughter by Negligence: the killing of another person through gross negligence.

Rape: Is the penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.

Fondling: The touching of the private body parts of another person for the purpose of sexual gratification, forcibly and/or against that person’s will; or, not forcibly or against the person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her youth or because of his/her temporary or permanent mental incapacity.

Incest: Sexual intercourse between persons who are related to each other within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.

Statutory Rape: Is sexual intercourse with a person who is under the statutory age of consent.

Robbery: the taking or attempting to take anything from value of the care, custody or control of a person or persons by force or threat of force or violence and/or by putting the victim in fear.

Aggravated Assault: an unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury. This type of assault usually is accompanied by the use of a weapon or by means likely to produce death or great bodily harm. It is not necessary that injury result from an aggravated assault when a gun, knife or other weapon is used which could or probably would result in a serious potential injury if the crime were successfully completed.

Burglary: The unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or a theft. For reporting purposes this definition includes: unlawful entry with intent to commit a larceny or a felony; breaking and entering with intent to commit a larceny; housebreaking; safecracking; and all attempts to commit any of the aforementioned.

Motor Vehicle Theft: The theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle. (Classify as motor vehicle theft all cases where automobiles are taken by persons not having lawful access, this includes joy riding)

Arson: The willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, or personal property of another kind.

Weapon Law/Policy Violations: The violation of laws or ordinances dealing with weapon offenses, regulatory in nature, such as manufacture, sale, or possession of deadly weapons; carrying deadly weapons, concealed oropenly; furnishing deadly weapons to minors; aliens possessing deadly weapons; all attempts to commit any of the aforementioned.

Drug Abuse Violations: Violations of state, federal, and local laws relating to the unlawful possession, sale, use, growing, manufacturing, and making of narcotic drugs. The relevant substances include opium or cocaine and their derivatives (morphine, heroin, codeine); marijuana; synthetic narcotics (Demerol, methadone); and other dangerous non-narcotic drugs (barbiturates, Benzedrine).

Liquor Law Violations: The violation of laws or ordinances prohibiting: the manufacture, sale, transporting, furnishing, or possessing of intoxicating liquor; maintaining unlawful drinking places; bootlegging; operating a still; furnishing liquor to minor or intemperate person; using a vehicle for illegal transportation of liquor; drinking on a train or public conveyance; all attempts to commit any of these acts. Drunkenness and driving under the influence are not included in this definition.

Dating Violence Violence committed by a person:

• Who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim; and
• Where the existence of such a relationship shall be determined based on a consideration of the following factors:
  • • • The length of the relationship,
      • The type of the relationship, and
      • The frequency of the interaction between the persons involved in the relationship.
      • The person’s parents, stepparents, children, stepchildren, brothers, sisters, half-brothers, half-sisters, grandparents and grandchildren, regardless of whether such persons reside in the same home with the person
      • The person’s mother-in-law, father-in-law, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, brothers-in-law, and sisters-in-law who reside in the same home with the person,
      • Any individual who has a child in common with the person, whether or not the person and that individual have been married or have resided together at any time, or
      • Any individual who cohabits or who, within the previous 12 months, cohabited with the person, and any children of either of them then residing in the same home with the person.

Domestic Violence Includes felony or misdemeanor crimes of violence committed by a current or former spouse of the
victim, or by a person:

• With whom the victim shares a child in common; or
• Who is cohabitating with or who has cohabitated with the victim as a spouse; or
• Similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under Washington domestic or family violence laws; or
• By a person similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction in which the crime of violence occurred;
• Who is a family or household member of the victim, where Family or household member means:
  • • • The person’s spouse, whether or not he or she resides in the same home with the person,
      • The person’s former spouse, whether or not he or she resides in the same home with the person,
      • The person’s former spouse, whether or not he or she resides in the same home with the person,
      • The person’s parents, stepparents, children, stepchildren, brothers, sisters, half-brothers, half-sisters, grandparents and grandchildren, regardless of
        whether such persons reside in the same home with the person,
      • The person’s mother-in-law, father-in-law, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, brothers-in-law, and sisters-in-law who reside in the same home with the
        person
      • Any individual who has a child in common with the person, whether or not the person and that individual have been married or have resided together at
        any time, or
      • Any individual who cohabits or who, within the previous 12 months, cohabited with the person, and any children of either of them then residing in
        the same home with the person.

Stalking The engagement in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to: Fear for his or her safety or the safety of others or suffer substantial emotional stress.

Hate Crime: Colleges and universities are also required to report statistics for bias-related (hate) crimes by the type of bias (defined below) for the following classifications: murder/non-negligent manslaughter, negligent manslaughter, sex offenses (forcible and non-forcible), robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, arson, liquor law violations, drug abuse violations and/or weapons: possessing carrying, etc. and larceny-theft, destruction/damage/vandalism of property, intimidation, and simple assault. If a hate crime occurs where there is an incident involving intimidation, vandalism, larceny, simple assault, or other bodily injuries, the law requires that the statistic be reported as a hate crime even though there is no requirement to report the crime classification in any other area of the compliance document. A bias-related (hate) crime is not a separate, distinct
crime, but is the commission of a criminal offense that was motivated by the offender’s bias. For example, a subject assaults a victim, which is a crime. If the facts of the case indicate that the 24 Pacific Lutheran University 2024 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report offender was motivated to commit the offense because of bias against the victim’s race, sexual orientation, religion, gender, gender identity, ethnicity, national origin, or disability, then the assault is also classified as a hate crime. The following crimes are reportable only if they are hate crimes:

Larceny: The unlawful taking, carrying, leading, or riding away of property from the possession or constructive possession of another.

Vandalism: To willfully or maliciously destroy, injure, disfigure, or deface any public or private property, real or personal, without the consent of the owner or person having custody or control by cutting, tearing, breaking, marking, painting, drawing, covering with filth, or any other such means as may be specified by local law.

Intimidation: To unlawfully place another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words and/or other conduct, but without displaying a weapon or subjecting the victim to actual physical attack.

Simple Assault: An unlawful physical attack by one person upon another where neither the offender displays a weapon, nor the victim suffers obvious severe or aggravated bodily injury involving apparent broken bones, loss of teeth, possible internal injury, severe laceration or loss of consciousness.

Hazing: ‘Hazing’, means any intentional, knowing, or reckless act committed by a person (whether individually or in concert with other persons) against another person or persons regardless of the willingness of such other person or persons to participate, that —

1. is committed in the course of an initiation into, an affiliation with, or the maintenance of membership in, a student organization; and
2. causes or creates a risk, above the reasonable risk encountered in the course of participation in the institution of higher education or the organization (such as the physical preparation necessary for participation in an athletic team), of physical or psychological injury including — ”
   1. 1. 1. whipping, beating, striking, electronic shocking, placing of a harmful substance on someone’s body, or similar activity;
         2. causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing sleep deprivation, exposure to the elements, confinement in a small space, extreme calisthenics, or other similar activity;
         3. causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing another person to consume food, liquid, alcohol, drugs, or other substances;
         4. causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing another person to perform sexual acts;
         5. any activity that places another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words or conduct;
         6. any activity against another person that includes a criminal violation of local, State, Tribal, or Federal law; and
         7. any activity that induces, causes, or requires another person to perform a duty or task that involves a criminal violation of local, State, Tribal, or Federal law”

On-Campus :Any building or property owned or controlled by an institution within the same reasonably contiguous geographic area and used by the institution in direct support of or in a manner related to the institution’s educational purposes, including residence halls; and any building or property that is owned by the institution but controlled by another person, is frequently used by students, and supports institutional purposes.

Note: Statistics for university housing facilities are recorded and included in both the all on-campus category and the on-campus residential only category.

Non-Campus Building or Property:  Any building or property owned or controlled by a student organization that is officially recognized by the institution; or any building or property owned or controlled by an institution that is used in direct support of or in relation to the institution’s educational purposes, is frequently used by students, and is not within the same reasonably contiguous geographic area of the institution. Residence halls that are located outside the campus boundaries are captured in the Non-Campus category.

Public Property: All public property, including thoroughfares, streets, sidewalks, and parking facilities, that is within the campus or immediately adjacent to and accessible from the campus. The PLU crime statistics do not include crimes that occur in privately owned homes or businesses within or adjacent to the campus boundaries.