[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2065 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2065

   To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require open campus 
        security crime logs at institutions of higher education.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 11, 1996

Mrs. Feinstein introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
         referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require open campus 
        security crime logs at institutions of higher education.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Open Campus Police Logs Act of 
1996''.

SEC. 2. DAILY RECORD AND DISCLOSURE OF REPORTED CRIMES.

    (a) Amendment.--Section 485(f) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 1092(f) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph:
    ``(8) Each institution participating in any program under this 
title which maintains either a police or security department of any 
kind shall make, keep, and maintain a daily log, written in a form that 
can be easily understood, recording in chronological order all crimes 
against persons or property reported to its police or security 
department, the date, time, and location of such crimes, and, if an 
arrest has been made, the names and addresses of all persons arrested 
and charges against such persons arrested. The provision of this 
paragraph shall not be construed to require an institution to identify 
in its log, unless otherwise provided by law, the names of the persons 
reporting the crime, the victim or victims, any witnesses or suspects 
who have not been arrested, or other information relating to any 
investigation of the crime. All entries in such daily logs shall, 
unless otherwise provided by State or Federal law, be open to public 
inspection.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall take 
effect on the date of enactment of this Act.
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