Virginia Tech is declining to release the U.S. Department of Education’s (DOE) preliminary findings on the school’s compliance with Clery Act regulations.
Larry Hincker, the university’s spokesman, said the school decided not to release the report, which was received at the beginning of February, because it was subject to review, analysis, correction and response by the university’s president, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
When schools have at least one violation that requires follow-up action or communication, the Education Department releases such reports of its findings.
Families of the victims as well as survivors of the 2007 mass shooting, in which Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 students and teachers, maintain that the university should have notified the campus community that a gunman was at large after Cho’s first two shootings. Those incidents occurred more than two hours before he killed 30 people in the university’s Norris Hall.
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