Show I Crime Appeal Ignored Moved to State Board I 1 Tr Alison Thornton Associate Editor THE State Records Committee has scheduled a Wednesday March 23 hearing to review Horizons Horizon's appeal appeal appeal ap ap- ap- ap peal for access to crime victim in in- in formation Currently college police police po po- police lice are withholding victims' victims names When Assistant to the President Katherine Boswell failed to respond to the appeal submitted submitted to the college college college col- col lege Horizon filed flied a second petition with the state According to the Utah Government Govern ment Records Access Management Act initial-contact initial reports written by police officers are public record The law describes what information information information tion such reports may contain names of victims date time place pla e and nature of complaint There are exceptions outlined in inthe inthe inthe the GRAMA law lawt but the Horizon is aware of no such case recently has happened on campus The Horizon staff has been given access to the initial-contact initial reports after submitting a GRAMA request request each week but victims' victims names and information have been blacked out Bob Beebe assistant to the vice president refused to release this information information in in- formation on the basis that it is an unwarranted invasion of privacy The Horizon managing staff feels this is not grounds for sion Slon under the initial contact reports reports reports re- re ports exceptions The law is the law It ticks me off that some administrators feel they can withhold this tion As a state legislator Brent Goodfellow should be upholding the law not tearing it down said Larry D. D Curtis managing editor Goodfellow who oversees oversee the campus police as executive assistant assistant assistant assis assis- tant to the president first denied crime victims victims' names and information information mation to the Horizon fall ter He also told Horizon editors in a December 1993 meeting that once they filed GRAMA requests requests requests re re- quests the information would be accessible i 5 |