Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fear of lawsuits led schools to withhold the name of accused perpetrators when reporting internal verdicts on violent crime. But as the new law makes clear, colleges cannot be sued for disclosing such information...
...just what constitutes a "reportable" crime has been clarified, according to S. Daniel Carter, who lobbied for the bill...
Congress even tinkered with the sacred student privacy laws, allowing schools to disclose the results of disciplinary proceedings, that involve "any crime of violence" or non-forcible sex offenses...
Added to a list that already included murder,aggravated assault and robbery are now arson,manslaughter and non-forcible sex offenses. Andany liquor-law violation, even when students arenot charged with a crime, must now be reported tothe federal government...
...impetus for the wide-ranging rules onalcohol and the expansion of crime reporting codesstem in large part from the recent headlines ofviolent crime and binge-drinking on campus...