University of Massachusetts Ends Use of Students as Police Informants

[From article]
UMass Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy has suspended the use of student confidential informants as the Amherst university conducts a "full review" of a program that allows campus police to tap students for criminal investigations.
Subbaswamy announced the move Tuesday evening in an email message to faculty and students, citing a Sunday Boston Globe story about the overdose death of a UMass student informant as the reason for the review. The article identified the student only as "Logan," whose father found him dead of a heroin overdose at an off-campus Amherst apartment on Oct. 4, 2013.
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He became a CI for UMass police after he was charged with selling LSD to an undercover police officer. But Logan's parents were unaware of his arrest, which wasn't publicized because he had agreed to help police as an undercover informant.

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UMass Amherst Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy suspends use of student confidential informants by UMass police while 'full review' of program is conducted
By Conor Berry | cberry (at) repub.com 
on October 01, 2014 at 6:40 AM, updated October 01, 2014 at 7:17 AM