Comprehensive reporting is necessary to ensure that alleged events are recorded accurately and to protect the rights of officers and citizens. A record will be made of actions taken by the responding officer whether the call is a request for service or officer-initiated activity. In many instances, the "report requirement" will be accomplished through the collection of information on computer by the Dispatch Communications Center (i.e. case numbers, disposition codes, etc.). A record will be made of all dispatched calls. This in no way relieves Officers from their responsibility to make written reports when the circumstances of a call/activity require one. When duplicate calls are received for a single incident, only one report will be required.
Any KSU police criminal or incident report involving a University student, where that student is listed as a suspect/offender, will be forwarded to the Office of Student Conduct for review and potential action by the Dean of Students. KSU police will investigate a report when it is deemed appropriate to do so. Additional information obtained via the investigation will also be forwarded to the Dean of Student Affairs office.
Students are disciplined at Kentucky State University through two principle means: informally through administrative hearings in the Office of Student Affairs and formally through two levels of courts; the Student Court and the All-University Court. Students have the option of appealing to the All-University Court only in cases of suspension or expulsion. Organizations do not have an option of appealing through the courts, as organizations are disciplined administratively.
The Office of Student Affairs shall keep and review students' disciplinary records and shall have the authority to summon and discipline students, including students who are multiple offenders. Multiple offenders are those students who have been found guilty in three (3) or more hearings before judicial officers or bodies, either through administrative hearings and/or through the levels of courts listed.
Nothing in this document shall be construed to limit the authority of the University President or that of the Board of Regents of Kentucky State University with respect to student conduct.