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A preliminary settlement filed Wednesday at a federal court in Sacramento stipulated that the UC Regents pay about $1 million to end a lawsuit filed on behalf of students pepper-sprayed by UC Davis police officers last November.
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The University of California shouldn’t need to pay about $1 million to settle a lawsuit stemming from mismanagement of campus protests. If UC Davis set better policy prior to November 2011, when police pepper-sprayed a group of peaceful protesters, a lawsuit wouldn’t be necessary. But the university failed to avoid
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Ten months after campus police on UC campuses made national news for using batons and pepper spray on student protesters last November, the UC Office of the President released the final version of a report commissioned by the University to review existing police and protest management policies Thursday.
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The UC Board of Regents is set to meet on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week at the UCSF Mission Bay campus to discuss strategies to address budget shortfalls and a legal settlement for protesters who were pepper-sprayed last November at UC Davis, among other issues.
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On the heels of the release of a report condemning the handling of the November pepper-spraying incident at UC Davis, UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi announced the first steps in responding to the report Friday. The campus will commission an independent, top-to-bottom audit of campus police operations and will hold
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An investigative report released at noon Wednesday lambasted UC Davis administrators and police officials for their handling of a Nov. 18 protest in which police pepper-sprayed student demonstrators. The 190-page report faults ineffectual administrative decision-making, poor police planning and weak chains of communication for the pepper-spraying. Along with the findings
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The public release of a task force report regarding the Nov. 18 pepper spray incident at UC Davis has been postponed beyond the first week of April. The announcement was made by UC General Counsel Charles Robinson in a statement Thursday following a Wednesday court ruling allowing for the disclosure
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Following court battles between the UC and a union representing UC police, the head of a task force charged with investigating the Nov. 18 UC Davis pepper spray incident sent a letter to UC President Mark Yudof Tuesday stating that the task force’s report will most likely be released in
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