Is the Education Departments spin on federal law keeping university crime information and other records under wraps?
© 1997 Student Press Law Center From college campuses to the U.S. House of Representatives, the question of how open campus crime information should be is a topic of continued debate. Many school administrators claim that the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), commonly referred to as the Buckley Amendment, forbids them from disclosing crime information about individual students in discipline records. But another federal law, the Campus Security Act mandates that schools report campus crime statistics. Both of these laws are enforced by the U.S. Department of Education. But critics say the Department is applying an overbroad interpretation of FERPA, and that they are allowing schools to ignore the mandates of the Campus Security Act. Partially because of this belief that the Department is not doing its part to enforce laws that promote fair and open reporting of campus crime and freedom of information, many have thrown support behind House Bill 715, the Accuracy in Campus
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