Monday, May 13, 2013
"Feds: UMass can withhold information"
That doesn't match up well with constant claims of "transparency"...
On the Boston Herald website, Erin Smith and Richard Weir report on the refusal of UMass Dartmouth to provide information:
"While state community colleges have already released financial aid information on bombing mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev, UMass Dartmouth Chancellor Divina Grossman has repeatedly refused and, under pressure, finally wrote to the federal government seeking an exemption to privacy rules for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. 'It’s just absolutely outrageous that the average person in this country has very little privacy remaining yet the taxpayers have no right to know whether someone is receiving taxpayer money to attend a public college. It just doesn’t make sense,' said state Sen. Robert Hedlund (R-Weymouth). 'It is my understanding that UMass folks are taking a very conservative view of the law and a very strict interpretation of the law to avoid disclosing information that is going to greatly anger taxpayers in Massachusetts.'"
