Regents hear concerns that campus police accountability boards are underused and time, place and manner rules are unevenly enforced

Speakers told the Regents that campus police accountability boards (PABs) are often ineffective and that enforcement of campus time, place and manner rules is inconsistent.

Sarah Bacon, a graduate student at UC Santa Barbara and vice president of external affairs there, said she audited PAB websites across the system and found many out of date or lacking meeting information. “From the perspective of a constituent who might have feedback to share about campus policing, many of the PABs seem like shell organizations that seek to just exist to check a compliance checkbox,” she said.

Henry Friedman, a professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management speaking for UCLA’s Jewish Faculty Resilience Group, cited a report that up to 150 people marched through Westwood to the UCLA Medical Plaza in December and said he observed an apparent failure to enforce published restrictions: “We urge the region's compliance and audit committee to evaluate whether these rules and restrictions are properly enforced or are merely performative.”

Shikar Li, a campus regional manager for Stand With Us, urged the Regents to maintain campus policies including a “0 tolerance policy for encampments” and to enforce time, place and manner regulations to protect students from harassment and disruption.

These comments were presented during the public comment portion of the Regents meeting. The transcript records concerns and calls for audits and enforcement reviews but does not record any immediate administrative changes or formal votes in the public comment segment.