Community colleges: protective orders.

Existing law provides authority for a governing board, the president of a community college, or the president's designee, or an instructor to suspend a student for good cause. Existing law authorizes the governing board to expel a student for good cause when other means of correction fail to bring about proper conduct, or when the presence of the student causes a continuing danger to the physical safety of the student or others. Existing law requires the suspension or expulsion of a student to be accompanied by a hearing as provided. This bill would provide that, if good cause for the issuance of an order, requested by a community college district, to protect a campus of the district, or any person regularly present on a campus of the district, is issued by a court against a student of that district, and prevents that student from attending classes and maintaining his or her academic standing, the district may require the student to apply for reinstatement after the expiration of that order. If the district requires the student to apply for reinstatement, the bill would require the district to do so before the expiration of the protective order. The bill would require a review with respect to the application to be conducted at the request of the student. The bill would require the review to include consideration of specified issues. The bill would require, after the review, that the governing board or the person to whom the governing board delegates this authority deny reinstatement, permit reinstatement, or permit conditional reinstatement, as specified.