The AHA has a very strict lease enforcement policy which includes documenting all conversations or meetings with residents regarding possible and/or actual lease violations or violations of the AHA Admissions and Continued Occupancy Policy. The Admissions and Continued Occupancy Policy allows for current residents to be evicted for violations of most of the screening criteria. There is a great deal of emphasis placed on eviction proceedings for illegal drug use, drug sales or drug-related criminal acts or other criminal acts of a violent nature.

The AHA has a standing agreement with the Aurora Police Department that all criminal acts reported on AHA owned property or by a person listing an AHA address as his or her residence is reported to the AHA on a weekly basis. The Executive Director or designee may then request copies of police reports by issuing a subpoena for any specific report. This provides the AHA with a direct knowledge of all criminal activity occurring on our sites. Lease violation notices may be issued or eviction proceedings initiated based on these police reports. Residents have a right to a grievance hearing (due process) if they are accused of a leae violation. Hearings are not provided for cases involving drug-related criminal acts or other violent criminal acts which may pose a threat to other residents.

The AHA works very closely with the Aurora Police Department to insure the safety of our sites and to determine who is committing crimes on our sites. This cooperation has also proven helpful in ideitifying live-in boyfriends, girlfriends or family members who are not on the Lease. The Aurora Police Department is very cooperative and helpful in many ways. They provide law enforcement services, report apparant lease violations when they observe them, tow illegally parked vehicles and help make all AHA sites a safer and better place to live.

The Aurora Police Department Community Oriented Policing (COP) officers have worked very closely with the Housing Authority and our residents resulting in a 75% - 85% reduction in the overall crime rate at our public housing sites. This program benefits our residents, the surrounding neighborhood and the entire City of Aurora. This is possible due to the partnership that the AHA and the Aurora Police Department has developed over the years to improve the quality of life for AHA residents.