July 27, 2007

Safety Trumps Privacy in Sharing Information About Troubled Students, Panel Is Told

By ERIC HOOVER

Federal privacy laws do not bar college administrators and staff members from sharing crucial information about troubled students, campus mental-health experts told a panel that is investigating this spring's fatal shootings at Virginia Tech last week.

Officials at Virginia Tech have said that privacy concerns limited the information they could share about Seung-Hui Cho, the student who killed 32 people and then himself on April 16.

But Richard J. Bonnie, a law professor at the

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