From SPLC.org (6/1/11): Nick Ochsner may have already walked across the stage, but he is still fighting Elon University's decision to withhold information about an on-campus arrest.
Ochsner, reporting for campus TV production Phoenix14News, was denied access to the facts and circumstances surrounding the March 2010 arrest of another student.
According to his lawyer, Ashley Perkinson, Ochsner was given “skeletal information” after submitting a public records request to Elon’s Campus Safety and Police Department.
Ochsner requested the complete incident report from campus police.
After several denials, the campus police department released an incident report that included name, date, location, charge and bond amount.
“They gave him the bare minimum information, nothing really substantive. He was looking primarily for the facts and circumstances of the arrest,” Perkinson said.