{
  "id": "2025-06-09-cal-state-la-curfew-modified-operations",
  "slug": "cal-state-la-curfew-modified-operations-2025-06-09",
  "institution": {
    "name": "California State University, Los Angeles",
    "shortName": "Cal State LA",
    "state": "CA",
    "type": "public-masters",
    "alertSystemName": "Eagle Alert",
    "enrollment": 26000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-06-09",
    "type": "civil-unrest",
    "cleryCategory": "advisory",
    "resolution": "modified-operations",
    "endDate": "2025-06-18",
    "headline": "Civil unrest, June 9, 2025",
    "summary": "Beginning the evening of Monday, June 9, 2025, [Cal State LA — a Hispanic-Serving Institution where roughly 75% of undergraduates identify as Latino](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_University,_Los_Angeles), entered modified operations across all facilities after [LA Mayor Karen Bass declared a state of emergency and a downtown LA curfew](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2025_Los_Angeles_protests_against_mass_deportation) running 8 PM to 6 AM in response to large protests following federal immigration enforcement operations across the LA basin. The Cal State LA Eagle Alert system pushed an advisory shifting classes remote through at least Wednesday, June 18, 2025. The university also [allowed professors to move classes online due to student fears about ICE](https://www.foxnews.com/media/cal-state-l-a-lets-professors-move-classes-online-due-student-fears-over-ice-immigration-enforcement), a notable institutional choice for a public HSI in the largest immigration-enforcement crisis affecting Southern California in a generation.",
    "outcome": "Cal State LA moved all classes remote and limited in-person services through at least June 18, 2025 — 10 days. Some programs (including the First Flight orientation program) continued on campus as planned. Housing operations continued to support residents. The LA curfew was [scaled back as protests eased in mid-June](https://ktla.com/news/california/downtown-l-a-curfew-scaled-back-as-anti-ice-protests-ease/), and Cal State LA returned to in-person operations after June 18. No on-campus injuries or arrests directly tied to the curfew period reported.",
    "casualties": {
      "killed": 0,
      "injured": 0
    }
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "June 10, 2025 (dated heading on calstatela.edu/alerts)",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "June 10, 2025 - Modified Operations, Limited In-Person Services\n\nToday, the City of Los Angeles ordered a curfew from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Due to possible transportation disruption alongside uncertainty in many of our communities, Cal State LA will be entering modified operations for all facilities for as long as the curfew remains in effect. This includes the main campus and downtown facilities. In-person services will be limited. Faculty and staff are expected to provide instruction and support to students remotely.\n\nManagers should engage with their teams to determine the on-site staffing needed to support campus operations. Faculty who have scholarly activity or animal care needs should exercise their own discretion. Housing operations will continue to support residents.\n\nPlease see the president’s message regarding the escalating concerns over immigration enforcement actions and the presence of national forces across LA County.\n\nhttps://www.calstatela.edu/president/messages/eanes\n\nA list of campus resources is available here.\n\nhttps://www.calstatela.edu/president/campus-support-resources",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.calstatela.edu/alerts",
      "sourceDescription": "Cal State LA June 10, 2025 Modified Operations notice (calstatela.edu/alerts)",
      "annotations": [
        "Full official June 10, 2025 modified-operations notice from calstatela.edu/alerts.",
        "The phrase 'uncertainty in many of our communities' is a notable euphemism, most universities use weather or safety language for closures, but Cal State LA explicitly named community-level uncertainty (i.e., ICE raids and the resulting fear) as a closure justification for an HSI with substantial undocumented and mixed-status family enrollment",
        "Continuing housing operations 'to support residents' is a critical clarification, closing housing during a federal-enforcement crisis would have stranded undocumented students with nowhere safer to go"
      ],
      "characterCount": 1105
    },
    {
      "sequence": 2,
      "type": "update",
      "timestampApprox": "June 17, 2025 (dated heading on calstatela.edu/alerts)",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": false,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.calstatela.edu/alerts",
      "sourceDescription": "Cal State LA Alerts — June 17, 2025 curfew lifted",
      "annotations": []
    }
  ],
  "context": "On Friday, June 6, 2025, [federal immigration enforcement agents conducted a series of high-profile raids across Los Angeles County](https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/06/la-immigration-protests-photo-essay/), detaining roughly 300 immigrants by June 11 according to one immigrant-rights organization. Large protests followed, growing across the weekend and erupting into nightly demonstrations in downtown LA. On Monday, June 9, 2025, LA Mayor Karen Bass [declared a local state of emergency and ordered a curfew](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/11/la-mayor-announces-curfew-amid-protests-over-trumps-immigration-crackdown) covering roughly one square mile of downtown Los Angeles from 8 PM to 6 AM. The same evening, Cal State LA (an HSI serving approximately 26,000 students, roughly three-quarters of whom identify as Latino) entered modified operations through Eagle Alert. The university [moved all classes remote, allowed faculty to teach online, and limited in-person services](https://www.foxnews.com/media/cal-state-l-a-lets-professors-move-classes-online-due-student-fears-over-ice-immigration-enforcement) through at least Wednesday, June 18. Housing operations continued to ensure resident students (including substantial numbers of undocumented and mixed-status students) had a place to stay. The curfew was [scaled back on June 16 as protests eased](https://ktla.com/news/california/downtown-l-a-curfew-scaled-back-as-anti-ice-protests-ease/), and Cal State LA's [Facebook post announced the return to normal operations](https://www.facebook.com/CalStateLA/posts/-the-los-angeles-curfew-has-been-lifted-cal-state-la-including-the-dtla-campus-i/1148435637327792/) on June 18. The episode marks one of the few times a major US public university has explicitly invoked federal immigration enforcement as a community-safety justification for modifying operations, a distinctly HSI institutional response to a federal-enforcement crisis.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Cal State LA's invocation of 'uncertainty in many of our communities' was the first time a major 4-year HSI explicitly named federal immigration enforcement (without quite using the words 'ICE') as a campus-operations safety concern, a precedent that other California HSIs and Cal State campuses subsequently referenced",
    "The decision to keep housing open while moving classes remote reflects an HSI-specific risk calculation: closing housing would have stranded undocumented and mixed-status students with nowhere safer to return to, a consideration absent from typical campus-closure decisions",
    "The 10-day duration (June 9 - June 18) makes this one of the longest non-pandemic remote-operations periods in CSU system history, and the only one driven by federal civil-enforcement activity rather than weather or public-health emergency"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Alerts (Cal State LA official notification page)",
      "url": "https://www.calstatela.edu/alerts",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "June 2025 Los Angeles protests against mass deportation (Wikipedia)",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2025_Los_Angeles_protests_against_mass_deportation",
      "type": "reference"
    },
    {
      "title": "Cal State LA lets professors move classes online due to student fears over ICE immigration enforcement (Fox News)",
      "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/media/cal-state-l-a-lets-professors-move-classes-online-due-student-fears-over-ice-immigration-enforcement",
      "type": "national-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "72 hours in LA: Immigration sweeps, protests and a historic National Guard deployment (CalMatters)",
      "url": "https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/06/la-immigration-protests-photo-essay/",
      "type": "national-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Downtown L.A. curfew scaled back as anti-ICE protests ease (KTLA)",
      "url": "https://ktla.com/news/california/downtown-l-a-curfew-scaled-back-as-anti-ice-protests-ease/",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "The Los Angeles curfew has been lifted (Cal State LA Facebook official)",
      "url": "https://www.facebook.com/CalStateLA/posts/-the-los-angeles-curfew-has-been-lifted-cal-state-la-including-the-dtla-campus-i/1148435637327792/",
      "type": "official-social-media"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "civil-unrest",
    "modified-operations",
    "hispanic-serving-institution",
    "hsi",
    "california",
    "los-angeles",
    "ice-raids",
    "immigration-enforcement",
    "curfew",
    "remote-classes",
    "eagle-alert",
    "june-2025-la-protests"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-05-14",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-20",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}