From the San Diego Union-Tribune: UC San Diego faculty are voicing concerns about students’ and employees’ personal information potentially being shared with the federal government for a civil rights investigation, raising concerns on campus that those people could end up being targeted by the Trump administration. Neither UCSD nor the University of California would say whether San Diego students and staff were affected, and if so how many, what information about them was shared or when their information may have been shared. UCSD declined to comment, deferring instead to the UC Office of the President...
UC has said it is required to comply with federal agencies’ information requests related to investigations, compliance reviews and audits... UCSD and other campuses are also required to provide information about certain students and employees as part of a resolution agreement the UC struck with the federal government in December. The UC made a deal with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights to address complaints against five UC campuses — San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, Davis and Santa Barbara — about discrimination based on actual or perceived ancestry, including Jewish, Israeli, Palestinian, Arab and Muslim ancestry... UC is required by Sept. 30 to provide the federal office a spreadsheet of all complaints alleging discrimination at the five campuses, including the names of complainants, of individuals who allegedly committed the discrimination and of witnesses.
The UC also agreed to provide, upon request by the civil rights office, copies of entire investigative files for complaints, which can include student or employee disciplinary records and personnel files...
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