Are Private College Cops Actual Law Enforcement or Employees

[mountainpass]

http://www.gpb.org/news/2013/11/19/campus-cops-enforce-law-but-are-they-law-enforcement

In the case, a young woman is suing campus police at Agnes Scott, a private women’s college in Decatur, for false arrest, among other things.



The Georgia Court of Appeals determined that the privately hired officers are immune because they were functioning as agents of the state, like sheriff's deputies or state troopers.

The case presents justices with a number of legal quandaries.



Regular police derive their discretionary authority from the elected officials that hire them, and are therefore indirectly answerable to the voters, observed Justice David E. Nahmias. In contrast, police at private colleges answer only to their employers.

 

[Deleted member 20875]

Yes they are P.O.S.T. certified law enforcement officers. Granted most cops do not see them that way but they are


Campus Safety - NO

Campus Security - NO

Campus Police - YES

 

[mountainpass]

Yes they are P.O.S.T. certified law enforcement officers. Granted most cops do not see them that way but they are


Campus Safety - NO

Campus Security - NO

Campus Police - YES

Yes the court knows they are POST certified, but since they don't answer us, they answer to their bosses at the private college are they officers of the law?

 

[Deleted member 20875]

I'll be paying attention to this case real interested to see how it turns out