Hands Off Students at CSUN
CSUN President Beck
CSUN’s Hands Off Students campaign demands the abolition of campus police, the dismissal of charges resulting from campus policing actions, the termination of campus police who used excessive force, the disclosure of all policies on police surveillance on campus, and the establishment of regular community police accountability forums.
We call on the university administration to align its practices with its values and to meet the coalition’s demands to eliminate anti-Black and anti-student policing. The current conditions are untenable. The time for rhetoric has passed. We demand action.
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CSUN President Beck
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We are writing to follow-up on our previous communication to you dated April 9, 2026.
On Tuesday April 7, two of our students were left with no realistic recourse but to accept a plea deal requiring payment of hundreds of dollars in mandatory fees to sign up for court-ordered labor and classes, as well as whatever financial restitution CSUN Department of Police Services deems desirable. These outcomes all stem from the students' encounter with CSUN police officers conducting themselves in an aggressive and escalatory manner at a student demonstration on the CSUN campus.
Next week on April 23, a Black student, who was forcibly arrested in the early morning hours from her dorm in March, will appear in court to face charges stemming from this encounter. These and other cases have led to multiple misdemeanor and felony charges against our students that could have and should have been handled at the campus level using the Student Conduct process.
Therefore, we urge you to make a public commitment to do the following immediately:
- Intervene in the upcoming case by going to court on April 23 to bring the case back to campus, where the student may be subject to a Student Conduct investigation instead of a legal complaint involving the Los Angeles District Attorney's office
- Stop the practice of over-policing within the campus interior
- Return to the practice of having multiple lines for different types of emergencies: mental health, medical, and crime: police should not be sent to medical and mental health emergencies
- Full disclosure of police surveillance practices on campus
- Full disclosure of the reasons for and number of arrests made by campus police this academic year
These are the most urgent issues that require your immediate attention to prevent further harm to our campus community, especially for Black students and other students of color.
We look forward to engaging with you in-person to work toward a more just, safe, and equitable campus climate. We ask that you act on behalf of our student body and larger campus community. In the meantime, we will continue to educate the campus community and our peers across the CSU about these serious instances of police misconduct and overreach. We will continue to be present at and disrupt campus events, including upcoming awards receptions and graduations at CSUN until University leadership can commitment to concrete policy and infrastructure changes, and meaningful actions.
Please use this email to communicate meeting requests along with other information addressing these concerns.
Sincerely,
Hands Off Students at CSUN
A Coalition of Students, Faculty, Staff, and Community Members