Private Colleges' Crime Records Going Public?
This brief article is published along with a 2-minute audio stream of the reporter discussing "whether college campus police should be held to the same public access requirements as other police forces. . . . For their part, private universities say they are not public agencies and must act to protect the privacy of students and staff. But critics argue that public relations play at least as big a role. 'For PR purposes, colleges want to perpetuate the impression that their campuses are crime-free enclaves . . . . Honestly, no one believes that. Everyone believes that a campus with 20,000 or 30,000 young people on it is going to have some crime. It's not even an effective charade.'"
Labels: law enforcement, policy, private-public
posted by Terry Calhoun at
9:31 AM
1 Comments:
I think it's great, except that these private colleges are allowed to have their own policies which don't fall under the constitutional rights to a fair due process procedure as one would have outside of the school.
There is a lot of abuse of power and false accusations because they can get away with it. At this point, if a student has been written up for anything that is looked upon as a crime, they would now be exploited unjustly and be at a huge disadvantage.
Maybe this would force the issue of a fair due process procedure in a private college, but in the meantime people who have been accused of serious matters without a fair trial will be hurt by this.
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