In his exquisitely titled posting, “A Spasm of Accountability?,” David notes that three administrators, including the campus president, have been &track=crosspromo” title=”http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-dickinson17jul17,1,5587020.story?coll=la-headlines-nation&track=crosspromo> &track=crosspromo”>fired at Eastern Michigan University. EMU Regents dismissed them for allegedly waiting more than two months, in defiance of a federal law governing campus crime reporting, to tell other students and the public that a student had been killed and that foul play was involved.

The incident sparked my interest in the specific campus security legislation in play, which can be found at this website of the U.S. Department of Education. The relevant law is known as the “Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act.” The pertinent House Conference Report can be found here.

For safety’s sake the public should be more familiar with this legislation. And administrators need to be more forthright with information relating to campus crime, even at the cost of drawing negative attention to the institutions they serve.