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UC Davis student leaders Katheryn Kolesar and Adam Thongsavat will be the co-hosts for a town hall meeting here today (Feb. 10) with top UC officials who are seeking comments from students, staff and faculty on police policies and procedures around the UC system.

The UC Office of the President organized this town hall and two others (on the Berkeley and Irvine campuses, Jan. 31 and Feb. 28, respectively) as a listening tour for UC General Counsel Charles Robinson and UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Christopher Edley Jr.

As assigned by UC President Yudof last November, Robinson and Edley are leading a systemwide examination of police protocols as they apply to protests at all UC campuses.

Kolesar, chair of the Graduate Student Association, and Thongsavat, ASUCD president, will convene the town hall at 4 p.m. in the ballroom at the Conference Center, adjacent to the Vanderhoef Quad at the campus’s south entry. The meeting, including light refreshments, is scheduled to run until 6 p.m.

The comments that Robinson, Edley and their review team gather will help inform a broad examination of the best practices that universities across the country have implemented to balance campus safety and security with the rights to assemble, demonstrate and engage in civil disobedience.

Following their review of UC policies, the town hall meetings and consultations with experts within and outside UC, Robinson and Edley expect to post a draft set of recommendations for comment. The team expects to forward its recommendations to Yudof in early March.