Discussion List for campus-based and allied personnel working to end gender-based violence on campus.

[Megan Elizabeth Selheim <>]

Hey everyone,

 

I have two (followup) questions regarding an ongoing situation we have here. I am working with a student at University of Wyoming who is being stalked by a man who is a student at a Wyoming community college. The stalking started while she was also a student at the community college, and has continued after transferring to UW. She didn’t report it until she got to UW. My questions are:

 

1.       Can we make a report to the Title IX office at the community college, even though she is no longer a student there? To the best of our knowledge, he is still enrolled, and may be using college computers to perpetrate.

 

The student I’m working with also knows who he is – she can visually ID him – but she doesn’t know his name, which has been causing some problems for our law enforcement’s ability to move forward on this. I’ve spoken with upper administration at the community college, and it sounds like they know who he is, and they know what he’s doing because I’ve talked to them as has law enforcement. But, they don’t have a PD of their own.

 

2.       Does the college have a responsibility to report their student to law enforcement if they know he is breaking the law? They have been refusing to work with both our university PD and local PD in the town where the college is located because of FERPA. We’re trying to get a search warrant to allow my client to look through student ID photos to ID the perp, but we don’t know if a judge is going to issue the warrant or not. The perp is definitely in violation of our state stalking statute, but the college says they can’t do anything unless he makes a direct threat, which he hasn’t done.

 

If anyone has any ideas, information or experience with any of this, I would really appreciate your help. Thanks!

 

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Megan Selheim

STOP Violence Program Coordinator

Dean of Students Office

Dept. 3135, 1000 E. University Ave., Laramie WY 82071-2000

118 Knight Hall

307-766-3296

www.uwyo.edu/stop