Disciplinary files

Permanent expulsion may not be eliminated from a student's record. Skip to main content. Search Wright State. Coronavirus Right Here. Right Now. Wright State. Community Standards and Student Conduct. Disciplinary File An incident file is created in the name of each student or student organization alleged to have violated the Code and follows the student or organization through any conference or hearing. Disciplinary Records A student is considered to have a disciplinary record when any of the following occurs: 1 a hearing panel or conduct officer finds the student responsible for violating one or more of the policies set forth in Section VI of the Code and any appeal taken by the student results in an affirmation of the hearing panel's or conduct officer's decision; or 2 the student is the subject of a hearing pursuant to Section Records Retention and Storage The existence of all student disciplinary records and the contents of such records are kept and maintained by the director or designee in accordance with the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, all state of Ohio laws, and Wright State University's records retention policy.

Records may be eliminated if at least three of the criteria listed below are met: The student has not been registered for classes at the University at any time during the prior seven academic years or, if a student organization is the subject of disciplinary record, seven full academic years have passed since the organization fully satisfied the terms or conditions of all sanctions imposed upon it.

The information provided a foundation for case histories in which both county police departments had let officers escape all, or most, punishment despite substantiated wrongdoing in incidents that resulted in serious injuries or fatalities. Most are still pending or have been substantially denied. The information sought by Newsday included:. In , the New York State Legislature, citing safety reasons, codified special privacy protections for sworn law enforcement members.

Known as a, the law exempted nearly all officer personnel records, including disciplinary histories, from disclosure under FOIL, making them off-limits to the public. Confidentiality often extended even to records introduced in public court proceedings. After a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd in May , nationwide calls for policing reforms pressured Cuomo and the Democratic-controlled State Legislature to repeal a.

Discussing the a repeal, New York lawmakers envisioned making similarly public the complaints leveled against local officers and whether or not the allegations were substantiated. They argued instead that FOIL would now govern which records had to be released, as happens with the personnel records of other public employees.

Following the June repeal of a, media organizations and civil liberties groups submitted scores of records requests to police departments across New York.

Most of the departments, citing initial opinions from the Committee on Open Government, a state advisory body, responded that well-established exemptions still empowered them to withhold the majority of internal affairs documents. FOIL permits public agencies to use their own discretion to withhold information about public employees that could cause an "unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. Typically, police departments said that releasing the records of cases that did not end in substantiated findings of wrongdoing would violate officer privacy.

The departments excluded from release records where officers were exonerated, remained under investigation, or where the charges were deemed "unfounded" or "unsubstantiated," meaning what happened could not be proven one way or the other. The Nassau County Police Benevolent Association, which represents the majority of uniformed officers in the county, recently argued that releasing such information would "present a danger to the lives of those officers.

Responding to an earlier Newsday FOIL seeking the disciplinary files of six officers in highly publicized cases that involved serious injuries or deaths, Nassau police provided little more than heavily blacked out "Concise Officer Histories. An appeals court ultimately ordered the records' release after it found that other police departments across the country routinely release such files without any harm to officers.

But it appears the NYPD's online files were at least partially incomplete when the dashboard went live. Patch conducted a search for disciplinary files on the department's three officers who faced accusations they applied illegal chokeholds at least three times. More files that will be added later include disciplinary history cases, additional trial decisions and disciplinary actions beyond cases. Check out the dashboard here. Judge finds no probable cause in case of Texas mother who allegedly put son in trunk to avoid Covid exposure.