October 2, 2000

Mr. Jim Castress, Director
Area Case Management Team
U.S. Dept. of Ed. Region IX Ofc.
50 United Nations Plaza, Room 266
San Francisco, CA 94102-4987

Dear Mr. Castress:

As you may know, the "Sacramento Bee" recently ran a series of articles detailing alleged campus crime reporting deficiencies under 20 USC § 1092(f), the "Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act," at all nine of the University of California's campuses. The series details the following allegations:

• Two-thirds of the campuses, including UC Davis, omitted sexual assaults reported to university sources other than police. Some universities also didn't gather crimes occurring at off-campus sites such as fraternities and those reported to medical centers.

• In some cases, crimes were miscategorized. UC Riverside police say men cannot be raped; UC San Diego classifies sexual assaults under the broad heading of "physical abuse."

• UC Irvine and UC Riverside failed to compile detailed crime statistics as required by the Clery Act. Instead, the campuses used less-exhaustive FBI statistics.

Given the seriousness of the allegations made in the "Rape: An invisible epidemic" series of articles we are formally asking the Department to initiate a system-wide program review of compliance with the campus security regulations by each of these schools. We previously filed a complaint against the Riverside campus on May 11^th.

We are particularly concerned about how administrators at the Davis campus have interpreted the law's regulations to justify excluding certain crimes. A separate complaint has been prepared to address compliance at the Davis campus and it is enclosed.

We hope that we can count on the Department to resolve these concerns promptly.

Sincerely,

S. Daniel Carter