This lack of notification to the University of a student’s criminal convictions is a flaw in the system that UVA Present John Casteen has vowed to change. “We are going to require a screen each semester to make sure we have identified any incident that has not been reported to us,” he said.

Jonathan Kassa, executive director of Security on Campus Inc., said campus authorities should know if their students have criminal histories. “Campuses should absolutely be doing background checks to make sure that serious felonies, sexual assaults or violence or intimate partner crime, gun violence — that those students are not part of their campus community,” he said.

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