Oklahoma State University Officials Worried About Media Coverage Of Sexual Assaults, Emails Show

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma State University officials fretted about the school’s public image as details emerged about the sexual assaults of several male students on campus, and maintained throughout that it was appropriate to withhold details of the attacks from police, according to records obtained by The Associated Press.

Even after an official from the U.S. Department of Education suggested the university had misinterpreted a portion of the Family and Education Rights Privacy Act, or FERPA, an OSU attorney insisted the federal law prevented them from disclosing details of an internal investigation to police.

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