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A Roof Deck Encounter: Skyline College's Timely Warning After Two Students Are Flashed

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Confirmed Threat

San Mateo County Community College District Public Safety issued a timely warning after an unknown man exposed himself to two female students on the Building 4 Roof Deck at Skyline College at approximately 6:58 p.m. on Friday, October 6, 2023. The suspect fled the area a few minutes after the students left, and he was not identified as affiliated with the campus.

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Skyline College
Community College · CA
~6,000 studentsAlertMe
Confirmed Timeline

Alert Sequence

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Some alert texts below are approximate reconstructions from news coverage, not confirmed verbatim transcripts. Reconstructed texts are shown in italic with a dashed border. Verified verbatim texts have a solid border and are marked accordingly.

INITIAL ALERTEmail
SMCCCD Timely Warning: On Friday, October 6, 2023, at approximately 6:58pm, it was reported that an unknown male suspect exposed his genitals to two female students at the Building 4 Roof Deck at Skyline College. SMCCCD's Department of Public Safety has determined circumstances exist that may pose a threat to members and guests of the Skyline campus community. This information is being released in accordance with the Federal Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act. Anyone with information pertaining to this crime should contact SMCCCD Public Safety at (650) 738-7000 or San Bruno Police at (650) 616-7100.

This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.

Names the exact location, the Building 4 Roof Deck, an unusual and specific outdoor space on the Skyline campus rather than a generic 'on campus' description
Invokes the Clery Act by name as the legal basis for the release, standard boilerplate language in SMCCCD timely warnings
Provides two separate contact numbers, campus Public Safety and San Bruno Police, splitting jurisdiction between the district and the city
The bulletin's exact original wording was not independently verified against an archived screenshot, so this reconstruction is marked unconfirmed even though it closely tracks the official page's reported language
Context

Background

Skyline College, part of the San Mateo County Community College District, sits in San Bruno, California. On the evening of October 6, 2023, an unknown man exposed himself to two female students on the Building 4 Roof Deck, a campus space not typically associated with safety incidents. The students left the area, and the suspect, described as an African American man in his twenties or thirties with a goatee and a birthmark or small tattoo near his right eye, left a few minutes later. SMCCCD's Department of Public Safety issued a timely warning under the Clery Act, a designation reserved for crimes the district determines pose an ongoing threat to the community. Indecent exposure cases like this one are Clery-reportable non-forcible sex offenses, distinct from the sexual-assault warnings that make up a larger share of campus timely-warning traffic, and they illustrate how community colleges with open, urban-adjacent campuses handle a less-discussed category of alert.
Analysis

Key Findings

The Building 4 Roof Deck, a specific outdoor space, was named directly in the warning rather than a vague 'on campus' description
The suspect was not believed to be affiliated with Skyline College, illustrating that timely warnings often describe threats from outside the student body
Indecent exposure is a Clery-reportable non-forcible sex offense that triggers the same timely-warning obligation as more severe sex crimes
The district split investigative contact information between its own Public Safety department and municipal San Bruno Police
Outcome
SMCCCD Public Safety asked anyone with information to contact the department or San Bruno Police; no arrest had been publicly reported at the time the warning was issued.
Provenance

Sources

  1. Official
  2. Student Paper
  3. Official
Cite this case

Campus Alert Archive. "Skyline College: A Roof Deck Encounter: Skyline College's Timely Warning After Two Students Are Flashed." Incident of October 6, 2023. Added July 2026. https://campusalertarchive.com/case/skyline-college-indecent-exposure-2023-10-06/

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Added July 2026Updated July 2026Via ingestion