University Chief of Police Hugh Don Wannano wants to protect the privacy of State University students who get in trouble. It is his contention that part of the learning process for students is learning right from wrong, so Wannano wants to keep troubled students from being stigmatized by being labeled criminals. Wannano protects students' identities by claiming that FERPA (the Buckley amendment) protects the privacy of student records. Federal law prevents access to campus police records and crime reports.

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State universities and their law enforcement agencies cannot prevent access to criminal reports with a claim that they are student records. Whether kept by a university or a police department, arrest records are public - they are not "student records" in the same way as grades.

University Chief of Police Hugh Don Wannano Wants to Protect