Guidelines for Responding to Compulsory Legal Requests for Information

[Rodney Petersen <rpetersen () EDUCAUSE EDU>]

The following resource is being communicated to other higher education
organizations in the coming weeks, including college and university
attorneys and campus law enforcement administrators.  We wanted to give
you a heads up about this resource as well in case you have not already
heard about it.  Please feel free to pass along to others at your
institution who might be interested.

-Rodney


Guidelines for Responding to Compulsory Legal Requests for Information

Colleges and universities are often called upon to cooperate with law
enforcement investigations or respond to legal requests for information.
Institutions of higher education have long been accustomed to producing
paper documents in response to various kinds of legal requests, ranging
from subpoenas to search warrants to public information act requests and
beyond. Increasingly, requests involve access to electronic
communications, electronic records, or logs maintained for computer
system and network monitoring. The EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Computer and
Network Security Task Force (http://www.educause.edu/security) has
developed some guidance for college and university personnel to respond
to these requests. To access guidelines and a set of corresponding
resources, click on the "Protocol for Law Enforcement Requests" link at
https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/secguide.


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Rodney J. Petersen, J.D.
Government Relations Officer & Security Task Force Coordinator

EDUCAUSE
1150 18th Street, N.W., Suite 1010
Washington, D.C. 20036
(202) 331-5368 / (202) 872-4200
(202) 872-4318 (FAX) 
EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Security Task Force
www.educause.edu/security
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