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AFTER BOMBSHELL REPORT, LAFAYETTE POLICE AND UL REFUSE TO SAY IF SEX CRIMES ARE NOW BEING REPORTED
May 28, 2021
Ben Myers
The Advocate
Lafayette Police repeatedly failed to notify UL administrators of student sex crime allegations over three years ending in 2018, disregarding an agreement with the university that arose from state law.
That is according to a bombshell USA Today report on Wednesday detailing how a student, Daniel Silva, bounced between three Louisiana public universities, leaving a trail of sex crime allegations at every stop.
University administrators and local police agencies repeatedly failed to disclose allegations against Silva, as intended in a 2015 law, known as Act 172, according to