Aug. 12: Marijuana incident in Walnut Ridge, nonresident Amari Cleckley was issued MIP for drug paraphernalia.
Aug. 13: Madilynn Faulkner was transported by EMS for intoxication and was issued an MIP for alcohol.
Aug. 24: Isaac Sanchez was involved in a marijuana incident and was issued a MIP for drug paraphernalia.
Aug. 25: Jonathan Eggers was transported by EMS for intoxication. He was issued a MIP for alcohol.
Aug. 25: Anakin Bergl-Lewis was transported by EMS for intoxication. He was issued a MIP for alcohol.
Aug. 29: Savanna Ryan-Sword was transported by EMS for intoxication. She was issued a MIP for alcohol.
Aug. 30: Bryan Sanders was involved in a marijuana incident and was issued a MIP for drug paraphernalia.
I am contacting state and federal officials about realising students information to the public because the police blotters do not release if they got a MIP or not that is official information and if you broke any federal or state laws I will personally be the first student to file a lawsuit against Colorado Mesa University and againt the editor of the CRITE also might look at somthing call FERPA because you broke the law right here
FERPA Defines an Education Record
Education records include a range of information about a student that is maintained in schools in any recorded way, such as handwriting, print, computer media, video or audio tape, film, microfilm, and microfiche. Examples are:
Date and place of birth, parent(s) and/or guardian addresses, and where parents can be contacted in emergencies;
Grades, test scores, courses taken, academic specializations and activities, and official letters regarding a student’s status in school;
Special education records;
Disciplinary records;
Medical and health records that the school creates or collects and maintains;
Documentation of attendance, schools attended, courses taken, awards conferred, and degrees earned;
Personal information such as a student’s identification code, social security number,picture, or other information that would make it easy to identify or locate a student.
Hate for Colorado Mesa University to lose accreditation as a University because it released students information that was confidential once my attorney gets the word back from the US Attorney’s office we will be filling the lawsuit.
Thank you for your concern. This actually gives us an excellent opportunity to provide clarity on an issue that some may not understand. There’s a couple of matters to explain. The first is that FERPA was amended in 1998 to allow disclosures of a student’s violation of the use or possession of alcohol or a controlled substance. For more detail, see 99.31(a)15 of the FERPA regulations. The second matter is that anything that appears in the blotter of The Criterion is not a disclosure of private student information and doesn’t originate from CMU, so it doesn’t actually fall under FERPA at all. Police activity is a matter of public record rather than private individual information. All arrests, citations and warnings can be found on the police website. Information contained in the blotter, therefore, is not released by the university and thus the university cannot be held responsible for individuals, student or otherwise, failing to obey the law. The Criterion’s blotter is merely a tool for reporting public information that directly relates to CMU rather than the Grand Junction community as a whole. Just like CMU, The Criterion is not responsible for individuals breaking the law or the actions of police. The Criterion simply takes public information and sifts out matters that relate to the university. Thank you for the opportunity to provide clarity. We appreciate your readership and your concern.