Reply To: KSL: Utah Corrects its Mistake and Will Play byu

[Anonymous]

Meanwhile…….

http://www.sltrib.com/news/3956084-155/state-investigating-how-byu-police-access?page=1

 

SlTrib GRAMA requests the records of BYU police officers access and dissemination to the Honor code office. The next day DPS is requested to investigate the access to records. Honor code office stinks.

The Tribune in April asked BYU police for comment on the Nov. 20 campus-police inquiry into Barney’s file. Lt. Arnold Lemmon at that time said BYU police looked at the file because Provo investigators initially accused them of reporting Barney for discipline under the Honor Code.

“It had come to our attention, so our officer looked at the case file, which, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that,” Lemmon said. “The bottom line is, the Provo City officer made some assumptions.”

However, BYU’s reports and Provo police records show that Provo police first contacted BYU about the issue on Dec. 3 — almost two weeks after the log showed BYU police viewed Barney’s file.

 

Barney said herself she didn’t know BYU was investigating her until Nov. 25, and she first alerted Provo police to possible witness retaliation after that, triggering Provo’s investigation.

Lemmon said BYU police officers are allowed to access cases in other jurisdictions.

“Many times it may not be our case directly,” Lemmon said. “If we learn … we have a student who’s a victim in the community, we’ll often look at another agency’s case file. … There’s a myriad of reasons agencies look at each others’ reports.”

In the email asking Rhoades to look up information, the Honor Code counselor does not appear to portray Barney as a crime victim. Instead, she begins, “Hi Aaron, I just took a report alleging that one of our students (Madison Barney) has falsely accused a community member … of rape.”

Barney said she finds it “ridiculous” that BYU police accessed the file. But she said she is even more distressed that police didn’t wave the Honor Code Office off her case after reading her detailed report.

“The fact that they could read through that and just not care makes me want to throw up,” Barney said. “That they would read about the violence, the screaming, the crying — I don’t see how any human being could read through that and have anything but compassion.”

Neither Rhoades nor Lemmon returned messages left Wednesday by The Tribune.