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TO: Mayor Richard Irvin
FROM: Deborah A. Lang, Assistant Corporation Counsel
DATE: July 24, 2018
SUBJECT:
Requesting approval of an agreement between Aurora University and the City of Aurora regarding local law enforcement cooperation, handling violence and sexual offenses, information sharing, issuance of timely warnings and emergency notifications and mutual aid.
PURPOSE:
This agreement will safeguard the lives, persons and property of persons in the City and on University property, allowing the University and the City to work together to provide law enforcement services within the City and on the University campus and surrounding areas.
BACKGROUND:
Aurora Police Department and the Aurora University Police Department have traditionally worked together on incidents that occur on campus as well as immediately adjacent to the campus. This agreement sets out the parameters of what each department handles when certain types of serious crimes occur.
DISCUSSION:
The agreement establishes operating procedures of the Parties to ensure an effective and efficient way for both Parties to serve their respective constituencies, to ensure that crimes committed on University Property are promptly and effectively reported, investigated, and prosecuted. Communication and cooperation will be enhanced between local law enforcement and the University in providing services and assistance to students, staff, faculty, and visitors of the University who are victims of or witnesses to crime and will increase the University’s ability to alert the campus community about serious incidents that pose an on-going threat to public safety.
IMPACT STATEMENT:
This agreement improves the communication between the two departments as to their roles when incidents occur on campus or off campus. This agreement will clarify the roles of the two department working together and should have minimal impact on the general public as well as the Aurora Police Department.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
The Aurora Police Department request the proposed resolution and agreement be approved.
cc: Government Operations Committee
CITY OF AURORA, ILLINOIS
RESOLUTION NO. _________
DATE OF PASSAGE ________________
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A Resolution Entering into an Agreement between Aurora University and the City of Aurora Regarding Local Law Enforcement Cooperation, Handling Violence and Sexual Offenses, Information Sharing, Issuance of Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications and Mutual Aid.
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WHEREAS, the City of Aurora has a population of more than 25,000 persons and is, therefore, a home rule unit under subsection (a) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution of 1970; and
WHEREAS, subject to said Section, a home rule unit may exercise any power and perform any function pertaining to its government and affairs for the protection of the public health, safety, morals, and welfare; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 10 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution of 1970, the City is authorized to enter into agreements with nongovernmental entities, such as with Aurora University; and
WHEREAS, the Aurora Police Department and Aurora University wish to enter into an agreement to safeguard the lives, persons and property of persons in the City and on Aurora University property, allowing the University and the City to work together to provide law enforcement services within the City and on the University campus and surrounding areas, effectively addressing alleged crimes of violence, by, among other things:
1) consistent with applicable law and agency guidance, sharing information with the Aurora Police Department about Aurora University’s students and employees who are the victims of, witnesses to, or alleged perpetrators of a crime of violence or sex offense;
2) Establishing a standard procedure for handling incidents and reports of Sexual Assaults, and issuing Timely Warnings and Emergency or Immediate Notifications, subject to requirements set forth in the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act), 20 USC 1092, Title IX of the Higher Education Amendments of 1972, 20 USC 1681-1688, and relevant federal and state laws and agency guidance; and
3) Establishing certain mutual aid response procedures for the Aurora Police Department and the Aurora University Police Department.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Aurora, Illinois, as follows: that the attached agreement between Aurora University and the City of Aurora regarding local law enforcement cooperation, handling violence and sexual offenses, information sharing, issuance of timely warnings and emergency notifications and mutual aid is full adopted as set forth in attached signed document.