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California
Campus LGBTQ point of contact: no disclosure of confidential information about alleged harassment, violence or discrimination without written consent
Cal. Education Code section 66271.2
In force.
A sensitive categories rule binding government bodies.
- Obligation class
- Prohibition, Disclosure
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are the California State University or a community college district, do not let the employee designated as a campus point of contact disclose confidential information provided to them by faculty, staff or students about any alleged act of sexual harassment, sexual violence or discrimination without the prior written consent of the person who provided it (section 66271.2(b)).
- Designate an employee at each campus as a point of contact for the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, pansexual, transgender, gender-nonconforming, intersex and two-spirit faculty, staff and students, and publish the employee’s name and contact information on the campus website (section 66271.2(a)).
- The University of California is requested, not required, to comply (section 66271.2(d)).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What record it asks for
Logging duty
The section bars a point of contact from disclosing confidential information without written consent. It names no log, no record to be kept, no retention period and no reader of a record.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Education Code section 66271.2(a) requires the Trustees of the California State University and the governing board of each community college district to designate an employee at each campus as a point of contact for the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, pansexual, transgender, gender-nonconforming, intersex and two-spirit faculty, staff and students.
Section 66271.2(b) bars a designated point of contact from disclosing confidential information provided to them by faculty, staff or students about any alleged act of sexual harassment, sexual violence or discrimination without the prior written consent of the person who provided the information. The University of California is requested to comply with section 66271.2, and the section applies to it only to the extent the Regents make it applicable by resolution. Section 66271.2 was last amended by Statutes 2024, chapter 490 (SB 1491), effective .
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