[367] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Disciplinary hearing openness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Jones)
Mon Apr 30 23:03:24 2001
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Ray Jones <rjones@pobox.com>, mit-talk@MIT.EDU
From: Ray Jones <rjones@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: "Christopher D. Beland"'s message of "Mon, 30 Apr 2001 22:58:31 -0400"
Date: 30 Apr 2001 23:03:20 -0400
Message-ID: <ppwd79tixdz.fsf@PIXIE.MIT.EDU>
"Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU> writes:
> I have to ask the question, then, is MIT *allowed* to open its
> disciplinary hearings if it is not allowed to disclose records of
> those hearings? If not, a changed in either federal or state law
> would seem to be necessary to enable that.
In a word, yes. See page 29 of "Covering Campus Crime",
http://www.splc.org/resources/ccc/cccindex.html
(Citations to the Federal Register on just this question are in that
document.)
It's a strange dichotomy (proceedings can be open, but not the records
afterwards), but it's still allowed.
Ray Jones
