On Sept. 15, the Cal State Fullerton Dean of Students released the 2026 Annual Security Report (ASR) via email, detailing university crime statistics and public safety policies and procedures.
The report, as required by the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act, must be created and released every year before Oct. 1.
According to the 2026 ASR, “these reports must contain applicable policies and procedures regarding security and the statistical data from the previous calendar year and the two preceding calendar years.”
This year’s report is the second to be released since the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act was amended by the Stop Campus Hazing Act in December 2024. The law requires federally funded schools to report incidents of hazing and include them in the ASR, along with hazing policies. The 2026 ASR is the first to include hazing statistics.
The hazing statistics go back to 2025, since prior to that year, no data was required to be recorded. In 2025, two hazing incidents were reported.
Motor vehicle theft surged from two in 2024 to 51 in 2025. According to the ASR, this sudden spike is due to the campus beginning to include e-bike and e-scooter thefts into the statistics in 2025.
“As these devices have become more common and vary in how they’re defined across jurisdictions and manufacturers, the university clarified its interpretation for ASR purposes so that incidents are counted consistently in the Clery Motor Vehicle Theft category going forward,” said Anne Grogan, compliance manager at CSUF’s Risk Management Department, in an email to the Daily Titan.
Burglary reports dropped from seven in 2024 to zero in 2025, while robbery reports went from zero in 2024 to two in 2025.
Reports of domestic violence increased from five in 2024 to nine in 2025.
Reports of rape went up, with four reported in 2024 and six reported in 2025; four of these occurred in a campus residential area.
Stalking cases have grown consistently over the past three years. In 2023, there were 26 cases. In 2024, 38 cases were reported. In 2025, there were 51 reports of stalking.
Grogan stated that the increase in stalking reports might be attributed to increased reporting and awareness resulting from increased outreach and support for reporting.
Three hate crimes were reported in 2025, including one regarding sexual orientation, one regarding national origin and one regarding race.
All three reports were categorized as intimidation, which is “to unlawfully place another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words and/or other conduct, but without displaying a weapon or subjecting the victim to actual physical attack,” as defined by the university.
One recent effort by the CSUF Police Department to increase campus safety was to earn accreditation from the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators, which they received in June 2026.
According to a press release from CSUF PD, this accreditation “acts as a benchmark for excellence, demonstrating that the department upholds the highest standards of practice by meeting 227 additional IACLEA accreditation standards beyond those required by the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training.”
The full 2026 ASR is available online on CSUF’s Risk Management website.