Specific Forms of Sexual Violence

The use of physical violence, coercion, threats, intimidation, isolation, or stalking of another while in a dating relationship, or a social relationship which is of romantic or sexually intimate nature. Abuse or mistreatment occurs in either heterosexual or same-sex relationships Such violence may include other forms of emotional, sexual or economic abuse directed towards a person who is or has been in a dating relationship or a social relationship of a romantic or sexually intimate nature with the victim. This includes any behaviors that intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, blame, hurt, injure, or wound someone. Dating Violence can be a single act or a pattern of behavior in relationships. It may take place at any time during the dating process - when two people first meet and become interested in one another, on their first date, during their courtship, once they have been involved with each other for some time, or after their relationship has ended.

The use of physical violence, coercion, threats, intimidation, isolation, stalking, or other forms of emotional, sexual, or economic abuse directed towards (a) a current or former spouse or intimate partner; (b) a person with whom one shares a child; or (c) anyone who is protected from the Respondent's acts under the domestic or family violence laws of California, including Family Code Section 6250 et seq., and any applicable federal law, including the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA), as amended. This can include behaviors that intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, blame, hurt, injure, or wound someone. Domestic Violence can be a single act or a pattern of behavior in relationships.

Hate violence as defined in the statute "means any act of physical intimidation or physical harassment, physical force or physical violence, or the threat of physical force or physical violence, that is directed against any person or group of persons because of the ethnicity, race, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability, or political/religious beliefs of that person or group".

Is sexual intercourse between persons who are related to each other within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by the laws of the state in which the incident occurred.

Unwanted, coerced and/or forced sexual penetration. The perpetrator may penetrate the victim's vagina, mouth, or anus, either with a body part or another object. The victim may also be forced to penetrate the perpetrator's vagina, mouth, or anus.

Actual or attempted sexual contact with another person without that person's Consent. Sexual Assault includes, but is not limited to 1) intentional touching of another person's body in a sexual nature without that person's consent; 2) other intentional sexual contacts with another person without that person's consent; 3) coercing, forcing, or attempting to coerce or force a person to touch another person's body in a sexual nature without that person's consent; or 4) rape, which is penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina, or anus of a person by any body part of another person, or by an object, or the mouth of a person, or by a sex organ of another person, without the other person's Consent.

Knowingly touching or fondling a person's genitals, breasts, thighs, groin, or buttocks, or knowingly touching a person with one's own genitals, breasts or buttocks, when consent is not present. This includes contact done directly or indirectly through clothing, bodily fluids, or with an object. It also includes causing or inducing a person, when consent is not present, to similarly touch, fondle, or contact oneself or someone else.

Occurs when a person takes sexual advantage of another person for the benefit of anyone other than that person without the other person's Consent. Examples of behavior that could rise to the level of Sexual Exploitation include:

• Prostituting another person
• Recording images (e.g. video, photograph) or audio of another person's sexual activity, body when recorded for a sexual reason, or nakedness without that person's Consent
• Disturbing images (e.g. video, photograph) or audio of another person's sexual activity, images of another's body for sexual purposes, or nakedness, if the individual distributing the images or audio knows or should have known that the person depicted in the images or audio did not Consent to such disclosure and objects to such disclosure;
• Viewing or distributing images of an individual's sexual activity, of another person's body parts, or nakedness in a place where that person would have a reasonable expectation of privacy, without that person's consent, to have the image shared, or advance Consent to viewing such an image, for the purposes of arousing or gratifying sexual desire.

Unwanted and unwelcome verbal sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other visual, verbal, or physical conduct of a sexual nature. Sexual harassment can also include stalking, voyeurism ("peeping toms"), exhibitionism/exposing, and obscene comments and texts.

Sexual harassment is conduct on the basis of sex that satisfies one or more of the following:

• Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment: When an employee of the District conditions the provision of an aid, benefit, or service of the District on an individual’s participation in unwelcome sexual conduct;
• Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment: Unwelcome conduct determined by a reasonable person in the shoes of the Complainant to be so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it effectively denies a person equal access to the District's program or activity;
• Sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence, or stalking.

Comprises a broad range of unwelcome behaviors focused on Sex and/or gender that may or may not be sexual in nature. Any intercourse or other intentional sexual touching or activity without the other person's Consent is Sexual Assault and is a form of Sexual Misconduct under this Policy. Sexual Misconduct encompasses Sexual Harassment, Sexual Assault, Sexual Exploitation, or Gender-based Harassment, which is a form of Harassment based on gender identity, gender expression, or non-conformity with gender stereotypes. Sexual Misconduct may also encompass acts of a sexual nature, including acts of Sexual Stalking, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Intimidation, or Retaliation, following an incident where alleged Sexual Misconduct has occurred.

Sexual Misconduct can occur between strangers or acquaintances, or people who know each other well, including between people involved in an intimate or sexual relationship. It can be committed by anyone regardless of gender identity and can occur between people of the same or of different sex or gender.

Use of sexual contact behaviors that are unwanted by and/or harmful to another person, but do not involve penetration. This can include touching or rubbing against a non-consenting person in public ("frottage"), forced masturbation, and non-consensual touching of the breasts, buttocks, genitals, and other sexualized body parts by another person.

Any penetration of the sex organs, anus, or mouth of another person when consent is not present, or any penetration of the mouth of another person when consent is not present.

The course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear or suffer substantial emotional distress due to another's sexual interest or gender interest. Sexual Stalking involves repeated and continued harassment of a sexual or gender-based nature, against the expressed Consent of another individual, which causes the targeted individual to feel emotional distress, including fear or apprehension. Such Sexual Stalking behaviors may include: pursuing or following; unwanted communication or contact — including face-to-face encounters, telephone calls, voice messages, electronic messages, web-based messages, text messages, unwanted gifts, etc.; trespassing; and surveillance or other types of observation. According to California Penal Code 646.9, the victim does not have to prove that the stalker had the intent to carry out the threat.

A course of conduct directed at a specific person that is unwelcome and that makes a credible threat with the intent to cause a reasonable person to fear for their safety (or the safety of a third party such as a family member) or suffer substantial emotional distress. A stalker is someone who willfully, maliciously and repeatedly follows or harasses another person and who makes a credible threat with the intent to place that person or their immediate family in fear for their safety. Conduct that can amount to stalking may include two or more actions directed at another person, whether done directly, indirectly, through others such as immediate family, via devices, or via any other methods or means (specifically including electronic means), where the threat is reasonably determined by the College Disciplinary Officer to create substantial emotional distress, torment, create fear, or terrorize the person. According to California Penal Code 646.9, the victim does not have to prove that the stalker had the intent to carry out the threat.

Sexual intercourse with a person who is under the statutory age of consent under the laws of the state in which the incident occurred.