From the Greensboro News and Record (6/5/12): State-certified campus police departments at private universities such as Duke, Wake Forest, Davidson or Elon can enforce state laws, investigate crimes and make arrests ...
… but they don’t have to open records of those activities to the public.
In a case from Elon University, the N.C. Court of Appeals ruled today that private colleges and universities — and their campus police departments — are not subject to public records laws.
The unanimous decision, which affirmed a lower court ruling, seems legally air tight.
But it reveals what I hope was an inadvertant oversight when the General Assembly enacted the Campus Police Act in 2005.