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Ryan Stinnett summarized the required four components of the policy and assessed that the compliance reporting structures at UT Knoxville, UT Chattanooga and UT Martin are appropriate and consistent with NCAA best practices. \"It is my assessment that at each of those 3 campuses, the compliance reporting structure is appropriate and consistent with best practices,\" Stinnett said.

Stinnett told trustees that each campus's compliance officer has a dotted-line reporting relationship external to the athletics director so concerns can be raised directly to the campus faculty athletics representative or the chancellor. He also said the campuses maintain written processes and training for reporting and investigating NCAA rules matters, and noted cooperation between athletics compliance offices and the Office of General Counsel.

Campus staffing and violations noted in the presentation included:
- UT Chattanooga: two full-time athletics compliance employees (above the conference average); five level-3 violations reported for the calendar year.
- UT Knoxville: seven full-time athletics compliance employees (compared with a high of 10 in the Southeastern Conference); four level-3 violations reported for the calendar year.
- UT Martin: one full-time athletics compliance employee (below peer average); three level-3 violations reported and multiple level-2 violations arising from an NCAA investigation of the softball and women's soccer programs that resulted in a negotiated resolution.

Chancellor Freeman told trustees UT Martin added a graduate assistant in response to the investigation and is searching for a full-time compliance hire to reach peer levels. \"We are right now, in search of a full time person for the role and hope to have them hired and, within the next year or so,\" Freeman said.

Stinnett emphasized that level-3 violations are typically technical, isolated and provide minimal advantage and that self-reporting and self-investigation demonstrate a functioning compliance operation. He also warned the committee the college-athletics landscape is changing: litigation settlements and new oversight and rules for name, image and likeness (NIL) compensation are creating a different compliance environment that will require continued attention and potential adjustments.

No formal votes on athletics policy were taken at the meeting. Trustees were provided the full campus reports in their committee materials and Stinnett invited questions about the materials.

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Kelly Mahalik summarized the TBI report required by the College and University Security Information Act, explaining that the Tennessee Incident Based Reporting System (TIBRS) uses FBI definitions to categorize offenses and that each campus's rate is calculated per 1,000 people using the 2024 fall-term population. \"These statistics are based on data submitted through the TBI's, Tennessee Incident Based Reporting System,\" Mahalik said.

The data presented showed a statewide decline in several categories in 2024, including assaultive offenses, stalking and drug and narcotics violations, TBI noted. Within the UT System specifically, Mahalik said 2022 was a high watermark, 2023 saw a slight decrease, and the system shows a slight increase from 2023 to 2024.

Campus-level details presented to the committee included:
- UT Knoxville: population used for the rate, 44,509. Reported increases in drug and narcotics violations and weapons-law violations; Mahalik told trustees that \"95% of those drug violations and 40 out of 41% of the weapons law violations were cleared, meaning an arrest was made for that incident.\" (The materials given to trustees include full campus breakdowns.)
- UT Chattanooga: population 13,103. Reported decreases in vandalism and theft and a slight increase in drug and narcotics violations.
- UT Southern: population 1,060. Little change over three years; theft decreased but drug violations rose slightly. UT Southern does not have its own law-enforcement entity; Pulaski Police Department supplied its data.
- UT Martin: population 8,493. Slight increases in vandalism and in drug and narcotics violations; Mahalik said 92% of the drug and narcotics reports at Martin were cleared by arrest.
- UT Health Science Center: population 7,992. Reported decreases in theft and vandalism and a sharp decline in drug and narcotics violations.

Committee members asked for follow-up detail and additional aggregation. Chairman John Compton requested an aggregated per-thousand comparison for 2022, 2023 and 2024 so the trustees could view an overall trend; a trustee also asked for disposition information and cautioned that the number of reports alone is not always the most informative metric.

Following the statistics presentation, Sean O\u0000B4Brien, associate vice chancellor for public safety and chief of police at UT Chattanooga, described his department's priorities since joining UTC in May 2024: rebuilding campus relationships, organizational and professional development to improve retention, and training and equipment for active-violence response. \"Our responsibility is to support the mission of the university and everybody who either works here, attends here, or visits here,\" O'Brien said.

O'Brien told trustees UTC Public Safety is working to reach 24 sworn officer positions and to fill remaining vacancies. He described joint exercises with regional partners, casualty-care and tactical-violence classes supported by THEC, and multi-agency drills that in one recent exercise included more than 100 first responders.

On technology, O'Brien described use of a vendor, Veil AI, to derive live alerts from the university's network of more than 900 cameras. He said the system can flag weapons, falls and unexpected occupancy in sensitive areas and route alerts to dispatch and command staff. \"If they are not telling you what is happening right now, they are of very little value,\" he said of cameras; the AI is intended to provide situational awareness in the moment.

Trustees asked about the AI's accuracy; O'Brien said the vendor partnership is still developing features, but that the system had performed well in drills and had identified weapons or holstered firearms as well as trip-and-fall incidents in testing.

Mahalik, O'Brien and trustees noted that some increases in drug and weapons reports can reflect proactive, self-initiated policing rather than a rise in criminal behavior. Mahalik said the TBI data represent incidents reported to or initiated by law enforcement and do not necessarily reflect final charging decisions.

The committee did not vote on new public-safety policy at the meeting. Trustees asked staff to provide an aggregated per-thousand comparison for 2022\u00002024 and to follow up with additional detail on categories such as fraud and counterfeiting and on dispositions where available.

Less-critical procedural items that followed included approval of minutes and a consent agenda (voice approvals). The committee adjourned into a nonpublic executive session under Tennessee Code Annotated section 4-35-108 to review matters not subject to public inspection.

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