Walk It Through: The Initiation
Hazing, the duty to report what is known firsthand, and care given when someone goes down.
A student organization tells new members that tonight's initiation means drinking until someone says stop, and a member learns the plan.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One initiation at a student organization. What hazing means under the definitions section, school discipline, the immunity for a person who reports, and other crimes committed along the way are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Emergency careCare administered in good faith during an emergency. The person who gives it is not liable in civil damages for an act performed during the emergency unless the act is wilfully or wantonly negligent.
- HazingAn offense under the Education Code that reaches whoever engages in it, solicits, encourages, directs or aids it, recklessly permits it to occur, or knowingly fails to report a planned or completed incident known firsthand.
- State jail felonyThe felony level below third degree: 180 days to two years in a state jail, and a fine of up to $10,000.