(a) “Campus” means locations on or near the campus of the community college and on or near other grounds or properties owned, operated, controlled, or administered by a community college district or by the state acting on behalf of a community college.

(b) “Campus police officer” means a sworn peace officer employed by a campus police department, or by a local law enforcement agency, to provide public safety services on a community college campus.

(c) “Campus security officer” means a person employed to provide security services as defined by Education Code section 72330.5, subdivision (c), on a community college campus.

(d) “Campus police department” means a police department operated by a community college district pursuant to Education Code section 72330.

(e) “Campus stakeholders” means students, faculty, classified staff, and administrators, including public safety personnel.

(f) “Commission” means the Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission.

(g) “Community policing” refers to a policing philosophy that involves three principal elements:

(h) “Equity” means the consistent and systematic fair, just, and impartial treatment of all individuals, including individuals who belong to underserved communities that have been denied such treatment.

(i) “Evidence-based policing” means an approach to the development of effective policing practices that involves ongoing evaluation of police agencies, units, and officers to connect the best available research to the implementation of public safety guidelines and practices to improve outcomes and to allow public safety agencies to move beyond reactive, response-driven approaches.

(j) “Sustained finding” means a final determination by an investigating agency, commission, board, hearing officer, or arbitrator following an investigation and opportunity for an administrative appeal pursuant to Government Code sections 3304 and 3304.5, or equivalent processes, that the actions of a peace officer were found to violate law or department policy.

(k) “Local law enforcement agency” means the city or county law enforcement agency with operational responsibility for police services in the community in which a campus is located.

(l) “Public safety personnel” means campus police and security officers, and other first responders, including mental health and social services workers, crisis counsellors, dispatchers, and others employed to provide related services on a community college district campus, including related support staff.

(m) “Public safety services” means law enforcement, security, emergency response, mental health, social services, crisis counselling, and other related services.

(n) “Underserved communities” refer to populations sharing a particular characteristic, as well as geographic communities, that have been systematically denied a full opportunity to participate in aspects of economic, educational, social, and civic life, such as Black, Latino, and indigenous and Native American persons, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and other persons of color; members of religious minorities; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) persons; persons with disabilities; persons who live in rural areas; and persons otherwise adversely affected by persistent poverty or inequality.