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Crossing the Line

Is public accountability the price of a safe campus?

not publicly release their names, prompted calls for colleges to publish a

list of police activity within 24 hours, including the names and addresses

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of all arrested persons.

Joshua A. Gerstein '91, who was The Crimson's police reporter at the time, led a statewide campaign to have the Massachusetts legislature enact a law requiring the publication of campus police logs.

At the time, Harvard argued that it didn't release the names of students

arrested to avoid embarrassing them.

"If it's not an invasion of privacy to release the name of someone who has

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