Campus Accountability and Safety Act: online system for anonymous disclosures and confidential reports of power-based violence at a public postsecondary institution

Under Revised Statutes 17:3399.15(B)(3), a public postsecondary education institution must provide an online reporting system to collect anonymous disclosures of incidents of power-based violence and crimes and to track patterns of power-based violence and crimes on campus.

An individual may use the system to submit a confidential report about a specific incident of power-based violence or crime, and the system must also explain how to report an incident to a responsible employee and law enforcement and how to contact a confidential advisor. Under Revised Statutes 17:3399.15(B), each public postsecondary education management board must institute policies that require each institution under its management to provide for these measures.

Under Revised Statutes 17:3399.15(B)(1)(i), a confidential advisor the institution designates is not obligated to report crimes to the institution or law enforcement in a way that identifies an alleged victim or an accused individual, unless otherwise required by law. Under Revised Statutes 17:3399.12(4), an institution for this Part means a public postsecondary education institution.

The section's history note lists the acts that enacted and amended it, from Acts 2015, No. 172, to Acts 2023, No. 211, and does not date the online reporting paragraph on its own.