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According to HUPD??s statement, one of the officers dispatched to Cabot House on Saturday morning stopped a man on Walker Street fitting the description of the alleged intruder...
...search dorm rooms. In both cases, a warrant proved unnecessary when the students consented to have their rooms searched. And in both cases, not insubstantial quantities of illegal drugs were found, potentially leading to serious legal consequences for the students involved. While we are not questioning the propriety of HUPD??s actions, we are concerned that the students may not have known of their right to refuse entry to an officer without a warrant. Students’ confusion may arise due to ambiguity over HUPD??s role within the University. On the one hand, HUPD...
...detective, which concluded that the officer acted within protocol.But experts in civil rights and criminal law suggest that consent can be tainted if officers are misleading.And although undergraduates in college dormitories are subject to administration searches, experts say that university police departments—even private ones like HUPD??must in almost all cases obtain warrants.ELEPHANTS IN A TOOL BOXThe HUPD policy on searches is in line with that of other police department policies but does operate on a case-by-case basis.“HUPD officers may enter a student’s room with consent...
...Federal statutes,” Ellison writes in an email. “We might have changed in response to changes in the law, and it is possible that individual attitudes have changed, but I don’t think enforcement has changed independently.”Though HUPD??s stake-out means the alledged DeWolfe tokers may end up with a police record, if precedent proves anything, they’ll be walking with their class...
...mission to fully inform our readership about the issues that impact the Harvard community. We recognize that the SJC’s ruling marks the end of our legal battle. But the legal battle is only one front of our campaign to apply sensible free-access standards to the HUPD??s records. The legislation proposed by Barrios and Toomey, if passed by the full Massachusetts legislature, will accomplish this task by explicitly applying free-access standards to campus police departments statewide. The bill has already been favorably assessed by the Senate Rules Committee and the State Administration Committee...