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The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), a private police agency of Harvard University, is a full-service police department responsible for the safety and security of students, faculty, staff, and visitors at the university’s Cambridge and Boston campuses. The HUPD’s chief of police, since 1996, is Francis D. “Bud” Riley. The chief performs his duties under the direction of the university’s general counsel, Robert W. Iuliano.
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The HUPD has been the target of requests for greater transparency in the records it keeps or publishes about its officers’ actions. This culminated in The Harvard Crimson v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, et al. in 2003 where the Harvard student daily newspaper filed suit against HUPD in Massachusetts Superior Court. The case was ultimately transferred to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and won by Harvard in January 2006.
In January 2007 a bill, H. 3249, was introduced in the Massachusetts legislature that would provide greater access to records at all private police departments throughout the state, including campus and hospital police. An amended version passed the Senate and proceeded to a third reading in the House but was not enacted.