December 6, 2007
Describing Clery Act Requirements, Appeals Court Sides With University That Named Student in Crime Warning
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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