Title VI for Campus Law Enforcement and Public Safety Leaders

Title VI for Campus Law Enforcement and Public Safety Leaders

Class Description

D. Stafford & Associates offers a 4-hour interactive class designed specifically for campus law enforcement and public safety leaders who play a critical role in institutional Title VI readiness. This class helps participants understand how public safety functions intersect with civil rights obligations involving race, color, national origin, and shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics.

Campus safety personnel are often among the first institutional employees to receive reports, observe patterns, document incidents, manage protest activity, preserve evidence, and make access-related decisions. This course prepares leaders to recognize when safety incidents may also raise Title VI notice, access, documentation, or response concerns, while maintaining appropriate boundaries between public safety, civil rights, student affairs, Clery, threat assessment, and legal counsel.

Participants will examine the legal and operational framework of Title VI, explore the difference between bias incidents, hate crimes, protest management issues, protected speech, and civil rights access concerns, and apply practical tools to real-world campus scenarios. The class emphasizes that public safety leaders do not need to become Title VI investigators, but they do need systems that ensure the right facts reach the right people at the right time.

This class is recommended for institutions seeking to strengthen cross-functional coordination, improve documentation practices, prepare for protest and bias-related response, and build public safety protocols that support both safety and equal access to educational programs.

Some of the key topics that will be covered include:

• The legal foundation of Title VI and why it matters to campus public safety and campus law enforcement
• How dispatch calls, officer observations, CAD/RMS records, command decisions, threat information, and after-action reviews may create institutional notice
• Distinguishing hate crimes, bias incidents, protected speech, protest management issues, and Title VI access concerns
• Documenting identity-based facts, access impacts, referrals, evidence preservation, and neutral enforcement decisions
• Responding to protests while protecting speech, safety, and equal access
• Shared ancestry and national origin considerations in campus safety work
• Language access, Clery intersections, threat assessment coordination, and public communications risk
• Real-life case studies and tabletop decision points involving campus access, protest response, OCR resolution agreements, DOJ enforcement, and discriminatory policing allegations
• Practical tools for SOP review, dispatch prompts, report-writing, civil rights referrals, mutual aid planning, and data review

Who Should Attend

This class is designed for higher education professionals who have responsibility for campus safety operations, law enforcement leadership, incident response, emergency coordination, protest management, or civil rights coordination. Recommended attendees include:

• Campus public safety directors
• Campus police chiefs
• Command staff and supervisors
• Sworn and nonsworn public safety leaders
• Dispatch and communications leaders
• Clery compliance partners
• Emergency management personnel
• Threat assessment and behavioral intervention team members
• Civil rights, Title VI, student affairs, and general counsel partners who coordinate with public safety
• Institutional leaders responsible for protest response, access preservation, bias response, or campus safety policy

Certification

Attendees of this class will receive a certificate of completion from D. Stafford & Associates. Certification verifies attendance at this class and can serve as documentation that the attendee has received training on Title VI considerations for campus public safety and campus law enforcement leadership.

Faculty

This training program will feature expert faculty who serve or have served as practitioners in higher education, campus safety, civil rights compliance, law enforcement, Clery compliance, student affairs, investigations, or institutional response. Faculty bring practical experience in helping colleges and universities manage complex incidents involving civil rights, safety, access, protest activity, documentation, and institutional risk.

Logistics

This class is a 4-hour class, with time built in for breaks and interactive discussion.

Virtual Classes: This live, virtual class will be held:

• from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm Eastern Time.

Additional logistics are available when clicking the “Class Details & Registration” button for a specific class. (Note: clicking the “Class Details & Registration” button will not automatically register attendees for this class. There is an additional registration button that attendees must click to register at the bottom of the logistics page to complete the registration process).

Current In-Person Options

Current Virtual Options

1 Day Class: 12:00 pm to 4:30 pm Eastern Time