The Campus Safety Advisory Group (CSAG), a group of faculty, students and staff who have been working to develop Smith’s new independent police department since September, 2019, recently announced that their work in designing the new department has essentially come to a close.
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Thursday, Nov 14, a report summarizing findings from campus safety forums and listening sessions that have been held throughout the past few months was sent to the Smith community, explaining what steps the Campus Safety Advisory Group will be taking going forward and what feedback it has received about Smith’s police department.
Last week, the newly formed campus safety advisory group hosted a series of open forums to discuss the future of Smith College’s soon to be independent police department. The forums were intended to collect feedback from the Smith community as the advisory group begins deciding what to suggest to President McCartney in shaping the new department, which will go into effect starting July 1.
In January 2019, Daniel Hect was hired as the campus police chief for Smith and Mount Holyoke. After students from both schools saw the anti-immigrant, pro-Trump tweets he had liked and retweeted, they spoke out against the newly appointed Hect.
In January 2019, Daniel Hect was hired as the new campus police chief for the joint campus police departments of Mount Holyoke and Smith.
In our last issue last semester, our front-page story recounted the allegations of severe mishandling of a case of sexual violence at Smith College, put…
An unidentified Smith student was sexually assaulted in the late afternoon on Wednesday, Oct. 25 in the Dickinson parking lot outside of Hubbard House.
Approximately five minutes after the incident, the student called Campus Police and waited over an hour for them to arrive.