DPS Oversight Committee
MSA to consider proposal to elect student representatives for DPS Oversight Committee
BY MALLORY JONES
A resolution proposed last night at the Michigan Student Assembly meeting would allow the student body to vote for the two student members of the Department of Public Safety Oversight Committee.
Amid controversy, MSA to drop nomination process for student reps. on DPS Oversight Committee
BY STEPHANIE STEINBERG
Michigan Student Assembly President Abhishek Mahanti said the assembly’s current practice of nominating and appointing representatives to the Department of Public Safety Oversight Committee will soon be dropped.
From the Daily: Elections expected
BY FROM THE DAILY
The University administration, for its part, should prevent the DPS Oversight Committee from collapsing into irrelevance as it has over the last decade. Instead, it should push for an empowered committee that improves the relationship between DPS and the campus community.
Constitutional Convention ruled unconstitutional in CSJ trial
BY MALLORY JONES
A Michigan Student Assembly effort to revamp the document that governs campus life for students at the University has been deemed unconstitutional by the leading campus judicial body.
Viewpoint: Continuing the vision for MSA
BY JOHN LIN
The Michigan Vision Party is committed to serving students and fixing the problems that we see with the assembly. Our vision remains the same: to restore transparency and accountability to MSA.
Robert Soave: Reckless advice for MSA
BY ROBERT SOAVE
Will the fact that the University misled the student government on a matter of state law, either deliberately or out of complete idiocy, ever be addressed?
Prof. once denied meeting with MSA execs about DPS Oversight Committee, airs issues at meeting
BY MALLORY JONES
Medical School Prof. Douglas Smith finally got the chance to speak to the Michigan Student Assembly last night about his concerns over the Department of Public Safety Oversight Committee. His comments came after months of pushing members of the assembly’s executive board to meet with him regarding those concerns.
From the Daily: Blind to oversight
BY THE MICHIGAN DAILY
The University is abjectly failing its duty to ensure that there is an authority keeping DPS in line. This failure is in direct violation of state law, and the University must move quickly to right the staggering number of wrongs it has failed to address.
Special Report: DPS Oversight Committee may be in violation of state law
BY STEPHANIE STEINBERG
The Department of Public Safety Oversight Committee was created to hold the campus police accountable. But widespread negligence of internal policies and of the state laws from which those policies are derived raises important questions about how well the body is fulfilling its role.
