A recent Virginia state law has some members of the College of William and Mary’s Student Assembly to question its effect on privacy.
After the Virginia Tech shootings of 2007, the Virginia state government passed Campus Assessment and Intervention Team, a law allowing student information to be shared between the police department, the counseling center, and the dean of students’s office.
Several members of the SA are currently working to protect student rights in regard to possible threats from the CAIT law.
The law allows the three departments to share their separate information about each student in order to assess the amount of risk some students may pose to themselves or to the rest of the student body. Under the law, repeat offenders would be put on a high-risk list, monitored and discussed at meetings held by the police department, the counseling center and the dean of students.
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