Sexual Misconduct

If you, or someone you know, is a victim of sexual violence, sexual harassment, stalking, or any other behaviors prohibited in these procedures, a formal or informal complaint can be reported one of the responsible district employees below:

• Cypress College Campus Safety (714) 484-7387
• The Dean of Counseling and Student Affairs (714) 484-7387
• The Director of the Health Center (714) 484-7361
• The Title IX Coordinator, District Director of Human Resources (714) 808-4830
• The District Director of Equity and Diversity (714) 808-4818

Sexual Misconduct and Sexual Harassment

Both Anaheim Campus and Cypress College strive to preserve a respectful, safe, and non-threatening environment for its students, faculty staff, and visitors. Violators may be subject to sanctions under the student code of conduct (B.P. 5500), disciplinary action, and/or criminal prosecution under California law.

General statement of prohibition

North Orange County Community College District prohibits sexual discrimination, sexual misconduct, and other forms of violence, including but not limited to sexual assault, sexual violence, sexual harassment, sexual exploitation, stalking, dating and domestic violence.

The District also prohibits retaliation against a person who reports sexual harassment or sexual violence, assists someone with a report of sexual harassment or sexual violence, or participates in any manner in an investigation or resolution of a sexual harassment or sexual violence report. Retaliation includes threats, intimidation, reprisals, and/or adverse actions related to employment or education.

What is Sexual Violence?

Sexual violence is any sex act committed without consent, by one person against another person regardless of his or her gender or sexual orientation. This may include using force, intimidation or cohesion to make the person participate in the act. Examples include, but are not limited to: rape, sexual battery, forcible sodomy, sexual assault with an object, sexual harassment, and sexual exploitation.

What is Consent?

• Consent occurs when the involved parties agree to participate in any sexual activity or behavior. Consent must be present throughout the sexual activity.
• Silence and/or saying no for any act, at any time, is not consent.
• A person who is drunk, intoxicated, under the influence of any substance and/or is mentally incapable of making decisions, cannot give consent.

Ask yourself these questions:

1. Is my partner or friend sober and able to agree to have sex?
2. Is my partner or friend awake, alert, or capable of agreeing to have sex?
3. Do we (both parties) agree about the decision to have sex?

Tips for Prevention

• Be aware of your surroundings. Knowing where you are and who is around you may help you to find a way to get out of a bad situation.
• Make sure your cell phone is with you, and charged and program the Campus Safety/Police contact numbers in your phone on speed dial.
• Don’t allow yourself to be isolated with someone you don’t trust or someone you don’t know.
• Avoid putting music headphones in both ears so that you can be more aware of your surroundings, especially if you are walking alone.
• Call for a safety escort from Campus Safety at (714) 484-7387, if necessary.
• Use the Emergency telephones if you need assistance on campus.
• Have a code word with your friends or family so that if you don’t feel comfortable you can call them and communicate your discomfort without the person you are with knowing. Your friends or family can then come to get you or make up an excuse for you to leave.
• Think of a safety plan/escape route.
• Where are the doors and exits? Are there people around who might be able to help you? Is there an emergency phone nearby?
• If you and/or the other person have been drinking, you can say that you would rather wait until you both have your full judgment before doing anything you may regret later.

If you are in immediate danger, call 911. Report sexual violence to the law enforcement agency that has jurisdiction over the location where the assault or abuse occurred.

• Cypress College Campus Safety (714) 484 -7387
• Cypress Police Department (714) 229-6600
• Anaheim Security Department (714) 808-4911
• Anaheim Police Department (714) 765-1900
• Fullerton Police Department (714) 738-6800
• Cypress College Health Center (714) 484-7361
• Rape Crisis Hotline (714) 957-2737
• Sexual Assault Counseling (714) 834-4317
• Legal Aid (800) 834-5001
• Temporary Restraining Order Infoline (714) 935-7956
• Community Services Programs (714) 957-2737
• Employee Assistance Program (800) 272-7255

Cypress College is committed to providing an atmosphere in which students can pursue their educational goals and achieve personal growth.

At Cypress College, safety and security is a high priority, but the Campus Safety Department cannot provide a safe and secure environment without the support of the college community. We ask all community members to share the responsibility of providing a safe environment for everyone.

This information is to assist Individuals who may be victims of relationship violence.

Relationship Violence

Relationship violence (also known as intimate partner, domestic, or dating violence) is a pattern of controlling behaviors used by one partner over the other. Most commonly used methods of relationship violence are verbal abuse, physical battery, sexual assault and emotional abuse.

Relationship violence:

• Occurs in all socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, national and religious groups.
• Occurs in heterosexual and same-sex relationships at about the same rates.
• Affects people of all ages, genders, and physical abilities.
• 1 in 5 women and 1 in 25 men are victims of domestic violence.

Warning Signs

Does your partner:

• Call you names, put you down, or humiliate you?
• Push, slap, punch, kick or restrain you?
• Threaten or intimidate you?
• Pressure or force you to have sex?
• Say it’s your fault, when he/she hurts you?
• Isolate you from family and friends?

Don’t be afraid to seek help! If you are in immediate danger CALL 911.

Choose a healthy relationship:

• Have an equal and healthy partnership.
• Get respect and give respect.
• Make your own decisions and feel free to change your mind.
• Reject unhealthy attention.
• Choose to say “no” and have it understood that no means no.
• Know when enough is enough.

Reporting and Resources

• IN AN EMERGENCY DIAL 911
• Cypress Police Department (714) 229-6600
• Anaheim Police Department (714) 765-1900
• Fullerton Police Department (714) 738-6600
• Cypress College Health Center (714) 484-7361
• Dean of Counseling (714) 484-7334
• National Domestic Violence Hotline (800) 799-7233
• Community Services Programs (714) 957-2737
• Temporary Restraining Order Resource and Referral Counseling (714) 935-7956
• Shelter Laura’s House (800) 498-1511
• Employee Assistance Program (800) 272-7255

Cypress College is committed to providing an atmosphere in which students can pursue their educational goals and achieve personal growth.

At Cypress College, safety and security is a high priority, but the Campus Safety Department cannot provide a safe and secure environment without the support of the college community. We ask all community members to share the responsibility
of providing a safe environment for everyone.

This information is to assist Individuals who may be victims of stalking.

Stalking Defined

Stalking is a course of conduct and/ or actions directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear or emotional distress. The conduct must include two or more acts committed directly by the stalker, or through a third party by any action, method, or means; such as following, monitoring, observation, surveillances, and making a credible threat with the intent to place that person in reasonable fear of their safety or the safety of their family.

Types of Stalking

• Following a person.
• Leaving notes, phone messages, texts, and emails.
• Sending gifts.
• Contacting a person’s friends and family.
• Cyberstalking — Tracking a person’s online activity.

Types of Stalkers

• Rejected stalkers pursue their victims in order to reverse, correct, or avenge a rejection (e.g. divorce, separation, termination).
• Resentful stalkers pursue a vendetta because of a sense of grievance against the victims – motivated mainly by the desire to frighten and distress the victim.
• Intimacy seekers seek to establish an intimate, loving relationship with their victim. Such stalkers often believe that the victim is a long-sought-after soul mate, and that they were ‘meant’ to be together.
• Incompetent suitors, despite poor social or courting skills, have a fixation, or in some cases, a sense of entitlement to an intimate relationship with those who have attracted their amorous interest. Their victims are most often already in a dating relationship with someone else.
• Predatory stalkers spy on the victim in order to prepare and plan an attack – often sexual – on the victim.

Resources

IN AN EMERGENCY DIAL 911

• Cypress Police Department (714) 229-6600
• Anaheim Police Department (714) 765-1900
• Fullerton Police Department (714) 738-6600
• Cypress College Health Center (714) 484-7361
• Dean of Counseling (714) 484-7334
• CSP Victim’s Assistance (714) 935-7956
• Temporary Restraining Order Resource and Referral Counseling (714) 935-7956
• Stalking Resource Center