Solutions to end sexual assault and harassment issues faced on and off campus were discussed during a consent workshop, sponsored by the Dean of Students, in the Sorensen Center Building…
Narcotics Jan. 17 — 1:22 a.m. An officer conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle near 500 W. 800 S. in Orem for a non-moving violation. During the investigation, the…
Property Damage Jan. 5 — 10:54 p.m. An officer received a report of property damage after a drawer was broken into at the UVU Central Plant Office. Nothing was stolen,…
Laura Carlson has accepted the position as UVU’s new Title IX coordinator and EEO/Affirmative Action director effective Feb. 1. Carlson has received nationally recognized training in Title IX and has…
University officials confirmed Jan. 23 that Melissa Frost, UVU’s former Title IX director, is no longer employed at UVU. This comes months after being placed on an unspecified extended leave…
Harassment Dec. 20 — 3:14 p.m. An officer arrived to the Fulton Library to respond to reports of a student being harassed by someone she knows. The officer met with…
Narcotics Arrest Dec. 11 — 8:36 p.m. While patrolling in the area of Geneva Road, an officer stopped a vehicle with an improperly lighted license plate. The officer found that…
Readers, The reason we do not have the police blotter this week is because school policies have changed. Over the years, the UVU Review, along with the public, have been allowed access to the school police department’s initial incident reports just by asking for them. The initial incident reports contain a police officer’s narrative of the crime that occurred and how it was handled. As of two weeks ago, we no longer get the reports and all we get is the time, location and a one word description of the crime that occurred. While the absence of a narrative is legal, the university has chosen to give us the legal minimum amount of information for every crime that occurs on or around this campus. Without a narrative, we don’t know how crimes are handled at the university or any outcome of the situation. We were told that the reasoning behind the institution’s decision to format police logs this way is so that it protects survivors of assault. The UVU Review has never published the name of a victim of a crime, and it would go against our ethical standards to do so. Institutional indifference grows in darkness and this change to the police reports does not allow any sunlight to the crimes that occur on this campus. The absence of a narrative on the police logs gives a false sense of security to students if we aren’t given the information of a situation such as an assault, theft, drug crime or. With UVU’s Title IX Office facing a federal investigation by the Department of Education’s Civil Rights Office, this move does not promote institutional transparency. Fortunately, initial incident reports are public information and the Government Records Access and Management Act allows us to request the information. This process can take days compared to how it used to take us 20 minutes to walk to the police station to look at the reports. The police blotter section of our newspaper is the most read and the most telling of our campus environment. The UVU Review will continue to investigate by sending multiple GRAMA requests to the university in order to inform our readers about the crimes that occur on campus. The late veteran reporter Helen Thomas once said, “we don’t go into journalism to be…
The following police reports were reported over the 2017 Fall semester Sept. 8 Library Disturbance An officer was called to the Fulton Library after two people were reportedly arguing. It…
Smoke and Matches Nov. 1 — 2:26 p.m. An officer was called to The Zone regarding someone smoking in the building. Upon arrival, the officer did not find a smoker….
Illustration by Tyler Carpenter Additional Reporting by Lincoln Op’t Hof Title IX coordinator and Equal Employment Opportunity director Melissa Frost, has been on extended leave for months, and university officials…
According to this year’s Campus Climate Survey, 82 of those who completed the survey, or 17 percent, reported experiencing sexual misconduct on campus. Of the more than 600 survey respondents,…
Found Wallet Sept. 26 — 7:52 a.m. While on a traffic stop, an officer was approached by a personcitizen who wanted to turn in a found wallet. The officer discovered…
Summaries taken from campus police reports Sept. 19-Sept. 22 Bumped Bumper Sept. 19 — 5:51 p.m. An officer met with a student who wanted to report that his vehicle was hit…
Women are promoted on performance and men are promoted on potential, said Kyle Reyes, at the Utah Women and Leadership Project workshop that focused on strengthening women in leadership Sept….
