December 14, 2007
Court Backs a University on Reporting Campus Crime
How colleges should report crimes on and near their campuses is a high-stakes question that, for the first time, a federal appellate court has tried to answer.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled last week in favor of Johnson & Wales University, 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 Clery Act, but how
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