Placing a fake 911 Call

In HARTWOOD, Va the student newspaper at a public university in Virginia is seeking legal matters after open records for a mock "emergency" phone call made by the university's president were denied. At a campus safety walk University of Mary Washington President Judy Hample made a phone call from an emergency phone which was loctaed on campus claiming she was being mugged by an assailant with a gun.However the president was not bing mugged, she was trying to test the university police reaction time,seeing how long it would take for them to get to her location. Jessica Masulli editor-in-chief of the university's school paper said,"It put people in danger because the police did not know it was a test and took it very seriously." ther president was never charged for placing the fake 911 call.

Ok for one i think that was a poor choice on Hample part, you don't just make a fake 911 call to test their reacation time. That could of cost someone their life or got someone hurt really bad. The police had no idea it was a fake, what if they were trying to get there as fast as possible and hit someone? Or what if they saw someone that looked like they had a gun? There are two many things that could go wrong and thats why you simple just dont do that.

When Masulli requested the audio recording, the university denied their request in a letter saying "evidence related to a criminal investigation are exempt from the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act." "The recording was part of, and in fact the reason for a criminal investigation; albeit an investigation that took place in the past," wrote George Farrar, the associate vice president of university relations, in a letter to Masulli.

I think they have a good reason for not giveing them the audio but i think they should of this one time because she was'nt charged with anything and this happened at their school they have the right to let people know whats going on. They have a right to know to. I think if it would of been a kid at the school who made that fake 911 call they would of charged them, becasue they are kid. They should of charged her,all she had to do was let the police know and they could of came like any normal call.
-Lindsay McKnight