evt_2026_0026

DOJ and OCR reached a resolution agreement with UC San Diego after investigating racial harassment complaints involving African-American students.

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division case summary states that DOJ and OCR reached a resolution agreement with the University of California, San Diego after investigating complaints of racial harassment against African-American students on campus, including public displays of nooses and a Ku Klux Klan-style hood and an off-campus party involving stereotypes of African-Americans.

Public institutional response

The public case summary states that UC San Diego voluntarily entered into a resolution agreement and agreed to revise policies, maintain an office for harassment and discrimination complaints, and provide mandatory trainings.

Response depth
Direct institutional response
Response date
2012-04-10
Legal status
DOJ and OCR resolution agreement announced
Date
2012-04-10
Location
San Diego, CA
Category
Harassment or threat
Communities
Black
Verification
Verified from public source
Confidence
High
Review tier
Imported public source
Review tier limit
This record was imported from a public source and passed baseline publication gates. Source-family checks or human source-to-record certification may still be incomplete.
Verification rationale
Verified from public source; 1 public source linked (Government case summary). Confidence reflects source support, not severity.
Last updated
2026-06-03
Record hash
sha256:3f6a50531079311e69b9a636387ad297c0a766960b5b607bc29de8d4865aa906

Record Audit

Source basis and classification review

Source basis
1 linked public source: Government case summary.
Classification rationale
Category "Harassment or threat" is a documentation label based on the linked public source material; it is not an independent legal finding by Campus Evidence Lab.
Community rationale
Affected community label (Black) reflect the communities named or described in public source material, not an independent finding of motive.
Confidence rationale
High confidence reflects verified from public source and source support, not severity.
Field Source support Review note
School Civil Rights Division Case Summaries: University of California, San Diego School is recorded from the linked public source material and should be checked against the source text before reuse.
Date Civil Rights Division Case Summaries: University of California, San Diego Date is recorded from the linked public source material and should be checked against the source text before reuse.
Location Civil Rights Division Case Summaries: University of California, San Diego Location is recorded from the linked public source material and should be checked against the source text before reuse.
Category Civil Rights Division Case Summaries: University of California, San Diego Category is recorded from the linked public source material and should be checked against the source text before reuse.
Affected communities Civil Rights Division Case Summaries: University of California, San Diego Affected communities is recorded from the linked public source material and should be checked against the source text before reuse.
Description Civil Rights Division Case Summaries: University of California, San Diego Description is recorded from the linked public source material and should be checked against the source text before reuse.
Institutional response Civil Rights Division Case Summaries: University of California, San Diego Institutional response is recorded from the linked public source material and should be checked against the source text before reuse.
Legal status Civil Rights Division Case Summaries: University of California, San Diego Legal status is recorded from the linked public source material and should be checked against the source text before reuse.

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