December 6, 2007

Describing Clery Act Requirements, Appeals Court Sides With University That Named Student in Crime Warning

By Sara Lipka

How colleges should report crimes on and near their campuses is a high-stakes question that, for the first time, a federal appeals court has tried to answer.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled on Wednesday in favor of Johnson & Wales University, in Providence, R.I., which a former student had sued for defamation after it named him as an assailant in a crime alert. Colleges are required to issue "timely warnings" under the federal campus-crime law known as the

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