Catherine Gerardi said she believes where she lives off campus is private, but City Councilors Michael Ross and Jerry McDermott are not concerned with privacy.

An ordinance proposed by Ross and McDermott would make the names and contact information of all Boston students living off their college campuses available to the Boston Police Department, Inspectional Services Department and campus police.

“I just don’t find it necessary for them to have any of my information. It’s private where I live, I’m not hurting anyone, and they don’t need my information,” Gerardi, a middler biology major, said.

Ross, who represents the Back Bay, Fenway/Kenmore and Mission Hill neighborhoods, said the reasoning for the proposed ordinance is to start holding universities more accountable for student behavior off campus. Universities generally have a grasp of student behavior on campus, but are less aware and concerned with student behavior off campus, Ross said.

Although Ross said the need for the ordinance does not solely come from recent problems on and around the Northeastern campus, he said incidents like the Super Bowl riots, which left one non-Northeastern student dead and multiple cars flipped over on Symphony Road, do factor into the need for the ordinance.

“Other things do probably add up too, but certainly the Super Bowl riots do play into it. I hate to pin it on Northeastern issues, it’s not just Northeastern by any stretch, it’s university wide and city wide,” Ross said.

Since the riots, Northeastern officials and students have been working with Fenway residents in an effort to rebuild ties between students and the Fenway neighborhood. Most recently Vice President for Student Affairs Ed Klotzbier has started a community building task force. Bob Gittens, vice president for public affairs, said Fenway neighbors have been told Northeastern will maintain a database of off campus students’ addresses for university tracking purposes.

Although Northeastern is becoming more involved with area residents, Ross said more still has to be done.

“I think Northeastern, as a whole through students and administration, has made significant strides since the Super Bowl [riots] … relationship building is not a one time thing on either side,” Ross said.

The ordinance will be particularly useful, Ross said, to residents already living in college areas, and people contemplating moving to Boston. Because of the ordinance, a list of how many students in a certain area and the names of the universities they represent will be available for the public.

Students, however, said they do not feel the ordinance will provide as much help and information to the public as Ross believes.

“I don’t think [the ordinance] will help, it’s not going to prove who [was involved in the riots] or anything else,” said Zoe Neuschatz, a sophomore marketing major. “I think they can’t just assume [the problem] is off campus kids. It’s college students in general.”

The next step for the proposed ordinance, before a vote can be taken, will be a public hearing to be held at City Hall. A tentative date has been scheduled for Sept. 23.

-News staff writer Sarah Metcalf contributed to this report.