The majority of crimes on campus are never turned over to the court system,'' she explained. That case set a national precedent of opening student judiciary meetings and records,'' said Kent Middleton, a UGA journalism professor and an authority on open records and meetings. The requirement that schools keep a daily log of serious crimes committed on campus is another result of the Red and Black case and the lobbying effort it gave rise to, Carlson said. Meanwhile, state public colleges are adjusting to strengthened state open records laws. UGA, for example, has still not decided how far it should go in opening up meetings, said UGA public information director Tom Jackson.
Similar foundations exist at many other state schools.
In the fact of a federal court decision in Maryland and the advent of the lottery-funded HOPE scholarship, UGA ended its scholarship program for minority students in 1995. It was not UGA administrators, but the board of directors of the private UGA Foundation, that voted to end the minority scholarships. The foundation has had open meetings since the mid-1980s, and has also complied with open records requests, Jackson said. But it is not clear to what extent the state's open records and open meetings law apply to the UGA Foundation and similar entities at other schools, Jackson said. We haven't made those decisions yet.