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Here We Go Again...Dorm Patrols |
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Written by CougarGold
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
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PULLMAN (AP & KLEW Staff) - Campus police at Washington State
University have no authority to conduct random patrols of dormitory
hallways, which have the same privacy protection as the inside of a
home.
That's according to a state Court of Appeals.
The
June 26 ruling leaves WSU and the state's other public universities to
reconsider how they handle security, since all conduct some form of
patrols of dormitory hallways.
In November of 2006 the
Washington State University Board of Regents modified a Washington
Administrative Code, thereby granting police access to residence halls
without an escort.
The board's action came in response to a
decision by Whitman County Superior Court Judge David Frazier ruling
Washington Administrative Code is written in such a way that routine
patrols could not be conducted by police in the common areas of the
dorms.
Those common areas included hallways and lobbies. |
