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...paper, the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled unanimously for Harvard, rejecting The Crimson’s claim that since the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) is endowed with “special state police powers”—such as the power to make an arrest and obtain and execute a search warrant—it must provide the same information as public police forces...
Robert W. Iuliano ’83, Harvard’s general counsel, praised the decision in a statement released today for recognizing the University’s compelling interest in preserving students’ privacy and highlighting HUPD’s practice of releasing crime reports whenever an arrest is made. "The opinion upholds the University's decision to protect our students' privacy while at the same time recognizes that when the Harvard University Police Department makes arrests, records are available to the public," Iuliano said. In a hearing before the SJC in November, Iuliano argued that the University...
...Crimson. Hence we are following in historical footsteps by continuing the fight in the legislative arena for open access to police records. The Court ruled in favor of HUPD this morning on the ground that Harvard is a "private educational institution," and that, although HUPD has the power to arrest and carries out public functions on behalf of the state, it is not an "agency" subject to the public record laws. To provide some background on the case, in June 2003, The Crimson, citing public records law (G.L.c. 66, §10), requested all police records "including but not limited...
...D.Mass.1998); Sheriff of Middlesex County v. International Bhd. of Correctional Officers, Local R1-193, 62 Mass.App.Ct. 830, 831-832 (2005). A deputy sheriff has authority to take actions that a private person would not have in similar circumstances. A deputy sheriff may make warrantless arrests for misdemeanors, but only if the misdemeanor involves a breach of the peace, occurs in their presence or view, and continues at the time of arrest. See Commonwealth v. Howe, 405 Mass. 332, 334 (1989); Commonwealth v. Grise, 398 Mass. 247, 251- 252 (1986). The fact that some individual HUPD officers have been appointed...
...officers have been appointed pursuant to the provisions of [G.L. c. 22C, § 63,] shall make, keep and maintain a daily log, written in a form that can be easily understood, recording, in chronological order, all responses to valid complaints received, crimes reported, the names [and] addresses of persons arrested and the charges against such persons arrested. All entries in said daily logs shall, unless otherwise provided by law, be public records," [FN7] except where such entries pertain to specified handicapped individuals. [FN8] In addition, regulations promulgated by the colonel pursuant to G.L. c. 22C, § 69, specify that...