January 27, 2006
Harvard Can Keep Police Records Private
The highest court in Massachusetts has ruled that Harvard University may withhold some campus-police records because it is a private institution and is not subject to public-disclosure rules.
The unanimous ruling by the Supreme Judicial Court, which affirms a lower-court decision, came after The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper, sued to force the university's police department to disclose more details about alleged sexual assaults, the race of individuals involved in alleged
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