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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- This record is not a school ranking, safety score, severity score, or prevalence estimate.
- The record reflects public-source documentation available to Campus Evidence Lab, not a complete account of private reports or lived experience.
- Confidence describes source support, not legal truth, institutional intent, or moral severity.