Section 305.80  Campus Threat Assessment Team

a)         Pursuant to the Act, each higher education institution is required to develop and implement a Campus Threat Assessment Team.  The team should conduct threat assessments, address aberrant, dangerous, or threatening behavior on campus and provide guidance and best practices for preventing violence and providing supportive services.

b)         The team should consist of faculty, law enforcement, human resources, legal counsel, and mental health professionals.  It may also include other persons and organizations deemed appropriate to a particular circumstance.

c)         The team should create a written threat assessment policy that provides:

1)         Guidance to students, faculty and staff about how to recognize, address and report aberrant and threatening behavior;

2)         Identify individuals that will have access to information;

3)         Use a fact-based assessment process to investigate threats, actions or conduct that may lead to targeted violence and determine situation specific response action plans;

4)         Access a range of support services for students, faculty and staff that includes mental health services, crisis management and comprehensive services for victims, whether provided on campus or by accessing community resources; and

5)         Requirements for protecting the privacy of persons providing information to and subject to scrutiny by the threat assessment team.

d)         All areas of the campus community should be required to cooperate with requests from the threat assessment team relative to successfully monitoring any threatening behavior.

e)         The team should meet regularly to provide post-incident assessments and evaluate the effectiveness and response to incidents on a case or aggregate basis.