Kristin Smart Campus Security Act
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The Kristin Smart Campus Security Act of 1998 is a California state law of that came as a result of the disappearance of Kristin Smart. The law requires all public colleges, and other publicly-funded educational institutions to have their security services have agreements with local police departments about reporting cases involving or possibly involving violence against students, including missing student's.
The bill was written and sponsored by Democratic state Senator Mike Thomson, and was approved 61-0 in the California Legislature and signed into law by then-Governor Pete Wilson on August 19, 1998. It took effect on January 1, 1999.
The law was created largely because of the slow response to Kristin Smart's disappearance by the California Polytechnic State University campus security in reporting it to the police.
