Prohibition of Harassment

The policy of the North Orange County Community College District is to provide an educational, employment, and business environment including but not limited to access to its services, classes, and programs in which no person shall be subjected to unlawful harassment and where such environment is free from unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, sexual favoritism, or other verbal or physical conduct or communications constituting sexual harassment. It shall also be free of other unlawful harassment, including but not limited to harassment that is based on: race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, age, or sexual orientation, military and veteran status of any person, or because he or she is perceived to have one or more of the foregoing characteristics. Students and employees who believe they have been harassed or retaliated against in violation of this policy should immediately report such incidents by following the procedures described in Administrative Procedure 3410, Unlawful Discrimination.

The following person is designated by the North Orange County Community College District as the Responsible Officer for receiving and coordinating the investigation of all unlawful discrimination complaints, including sexual harassment: