Reporting Bullying, Hazing, and Hate Incidents and Crimes
Bulletin: Responding to and Reporting Hate-Motivated Incidents and Crimes (April 2024)
The San Mateo Union High School District (District) is committed to providing a safe learning and working environment that is free from discrimination and harassment. Hate-motivated incidents and crimes jeopardize both the safety and well-being of all students and staff. Current law requires school districts to document and report any and all hate-motivated incidents and crimes to permit the development of effective programs and techniques to combat crime on school campuses.
The District will not tolerate hate-motivated incidents/crimes based on race, color, national origin, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or retaliation in any form for reporting such incidents/crimes.
This bulletin is aligned with District policy on Bullying and the Federal Law Title IX for the documentation and reporting of hate-motivated incidents/ that manifests evidence of hostility toward the target because of his or her actual or perceived race, color, national origin, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity. Such action includes, but is not limited to, threatening telephone calls, hate mail, physical assault, vandalism, cross burning, destruction of religious symbols, symbols of hate, or fire bombings. This also includes threats or hate mail sent by electronic communication.
Responding to and Reporting Bullying, Hazing, and Hate Incidents and Crime (English)
StopIt Anonymous Reporting App
The San Mateo Union High School District uses STOPit, an online reporting tool designed to deter and mitigate bullying, cyber abuse, and other inappropriate behaviors, consisting of an app and a back-end incident management system for school administrators.
Learn more: https://www.smuhsd.org/stopit
Anti-Bullying Policy
The Board of Trustees recognizes the harmful effects of bullying on student well-being, student learning, and school attendance and desires to provide a safe school environment that protects students from physical and emotional harm. No individual or group shall, through physical, written, verbal, visual, or other means, harass, sexually harass, threaten, intimidate, cyberbully, cause bodily injury to, or commit hate violence against any student or school personnel, or retaliate against them for filing a complaint or participating in the complaint resolution process.
View the Anti-Bullying Policy.
Title IX Legal Protection Against Harassment
Title IX protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive Federal financial assistance.
Title IX states that: No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
Learn more about Title IX and Sex Discrimination enforced by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at U.S. Department of Education.
How to file a Title IX Complaint with the District
Title IX Complaint Form: English | Spanish
To learn more, read about Uniform Complaint Procedures (BP-AR 1312.3)
Uniform Complaint: English | Spanish | Chinese
Williams Uniform Complaint Forms: English | Spanish | Chinese
District Policies
For Students:
- Nondiscrimination/Harassment (BP 5145.3)
- Sexual Harassment: BP 5145.7 | AR 5145.71
- Extracurricular and Co-curricular Activities (BP 6145)
For Classified/Certificated Staff and Job Applicants:
- Sexual Harassment (BP 4119.11)
- Sexual Harassment (BP 4219.11)
- Sexual Harassment (BP 4319.11)
- Nondiscrimination in Employment (BP 4030)
- Civil and Legal Rights (BP 4119.1)