Residence Halls Violations (Ball State University)
| Tracking # |
21-172 |
| Multi Request | Residence Halls Violations |
| Submitted | Oct. 16, 2021 |
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Communications
From: Michael Topper
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Indiana Access to Public Records Act, I hereby request the following records:
Records of all liquor displinary violations, drug disciplinary violations, reports of rape, reports of fondling, and reports of statutory rape from student residence halls dating from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2019 (inclusive). I am requesting this information have the following information (but not limited to): exact date reported of the violation (e.g., the month, day, and year) and type of violation (e.g., liquor, drug, rape, fondling, statutory rape violation).
If this data can be given in a spreadsheet format (e.g., .xls, .csv, .xlsx) this would be most appreciated.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 7 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Michael Topper
From: Ball State University
Michael:
Attached please find the initial response to your request.
Thank you.
Office of General Counsel
Ball State University
From: Michael Topper
Confirming receipt of the initial response.
Thank you,
Michael
From: Ball State University
Mr. Topper,
I am re-attaching the crime logs for 2014-2019 that were previously provided to you on 1/19/2021 and 1/20/2021. In addition, I'm attaching the University's Annual Security Reports from 2017-2020, which contain the University's crime statistics from 2014-2019. These documents contain information about the types of incidents described in your request.
Note that the University's crime logs are not categorized by whether the incident occurred in a residence hall, and the University is not required to create such a document to respond to a public records request. That said, however, the statistics in the Clery reports do contain "on-campus housing" statistics.
Thank you.
Office of General Counsel
Ball State University
From: Michael Topper
Hi,
Thanks so much for your help with this request! I really appreciate it.
Sincerely,
Michael Topper