Confidential Reporting Procedures
The identity of persons making reports is kept confidential.  Reporting incidents as a form of good citizenship is encouraged at New Student Orientation and other SKC student annual events. 

If you are a victim of a crime and do not want to pursue action within the SKC campus system or the criminal justice system, you may still want to consider making a confidential report.  With your permission, SKC can file a report on the details of the incident without revealing your identity.  The purpose of a confidential report is to comply with your wish to keep the matter confidential while taking steps to ensure the future safety of yourself and others.  With such information, SKC can keep an accurate record of the number of incidents involving students, determine where there is a pattern of crime with regard to a particular location, method, or assailant and alert the campus community to potential danger.  Reports filed in this manner are counted and disclosed in the annual crimes statistics report for the institution.

As a result of the negotiated rulemaking process, which followed the signing into law, the 1998 amendments to 20 U.S.C. Section 1092 (f), clarification was given to those considered to be campus security authorities.  Campus “Pastoral Counselors” and Campus “Professional Counselors”, when acting as such, are not considered to be a campus security authority and are not required to report crimes for inclusion into the annual disclosure of crime statistics.  As a matter of policy, they are encouraged; if and when they deem it appropriate, to inform persons being counseled of the procedures to report crimes on a voluntary basis for inclusion into the annual crime statistics.