UVA has released a statement to correct an earlier report concerning the school’s efforts to encourage self-reporting of arrests and criminal convictions among students. The system will launch Monday, and the launch delay is not due to a technical glitch, but rather due to tests of the program.
According to UVA, students will have about a week to complete the form. If a student fails to turn in the form by the deadline, he or she will be blocked from sending or receiving e-mails.
A program devised by UVA to require students to self-report arrests and criminal convictions may not be working.
According to NBC29, the online disclosure system has encountered a technical glitch and is not popping up at the time a student logs into UVA’s NetBadge system for the fist time this semester. As originally planned, students were to be prompted by the program to disclose any arrests or convictions when they first accessed NetBadge to check e-mail or access course materials.
The wait, it appears, has to do with final technical support for the system. A University spokesperson told NBC29 that the system should be working on Monday.
The self-reporting program is a safety measure implemented three months after UVA student Yeardley Love’s death. Fellow student-athlete George Huguely, charged with first-degree murder in Love’s death, had a criminal history unknown to UVA officials at the time of Love’s death.