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Schwip
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University placed informant on campus
#5589942 - 05/04/06 12:51 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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This is totally fucking insane! What the fuck....
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/summit/1146385879269970.xml&coll=2
Truth about roommate outrages Akron student University placed informant on campus Sunday, April 30, 2006 Karen Farkas Plain Dealer Reporter
Akron -- University of Akron student Jay Williams wondered why his new roommate could spend so much time working as a roofer and visiting with his two young children but no time in classes.
And he was upset because Richard Harris smoked in the two-bedroom apartment and used Williams' flatware and plates during the four months they lived to gether in 2004.
Today, Wil liams is outraged, not only with his roommate but also with university officials: The man sharing Williams' living quarters was an undercover drug informant with a criminal record. While the two lived together, Harris was being paid $50 by investigators every time he made a drug sale.
Williams, 25, who will receive a law degree in May, said he was at risk of being arrested for selling drugs if Harris planted any in his unlocked bedroom. Or, he said, he could have been injured if he had associated with Harris.
"He had access to my room and, with his convictions, I think he would have done anything to get $50," Williams said. "The university offered nothing except an apology."
The university violated Williams' constitutional rights, said Jeffrey Gamso, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio.
"Informants are effectively undercover cops but do not have police training," he said. "When you insert them into a college atmosphere, it is particularly troubling. You want to think of school as a place where people are safe. It is supposed to be like home."
If an informant living in a dorm goes through a roommate's items, it would be a warrantless search, he said.
"The program is so troubling and so fraught with the danger of doing things wrong that you think there has to be a really serious need for this before we start playing these kinds of games," he said.
"I'm ignorant of any drug problem at the University of Akron, but I would be kind of surprised as to the extremes that would require this kind of thing."
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TODAY
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Re: University placed informant on campus [Re: Schwip]
#5590479 - 05/04/06 03:28 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Funny they'd be dumb enough to place an informant with a lawer as a roommate.
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RemainRandom50
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Re: University placed informant on campus [Re: TODAY]
#5597178 - 05/06/06 08:18 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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^ true. stupid fucking U.
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Microcosmatrix
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Re: University placed informant on campus [Re: TODAY]
#5597576 - 05/06/06 11:46 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
TODAY said: Funny they'd be dumb enough to place an informant with a lawer as a roommate.
Let them all drown in their own stupidity, and I love to watch it when it happens!
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cookeman
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Re: University placed informant on campus [Re: Schwip]
#5597590 - 05/06/06 11:54 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I'm just glad the kid is bullshit enough to actually file suit. i say good for him. The informant is definitely some of the worst scum on the planet. what a piece of shit.
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Banez
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Re: University placed informant on campus [Re: cookeman]
#5598428 - 05/06/06 06:05 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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yeah i cant contemplate ratting on my friends for money? seeing ur friends get locked up because of your greed.. what fuckin basterds
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