UNLV WITHHOLDS RAID REPORT FROM LAWMAKER

Add state Sen. Maggie Carlton to the list of people who can't get a state
report on a controversial UNLV drug raid.

Carlton, D-Las Vegas, said the university has refused to release the report
to her, citing personnel issues in the report on the March 9 drug raid on a
student dormitory.

Carlton asked for a copy of the Nevada Division of Investigation report as
she studies a bill to put the university system's police under the umbrella
of the state's Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety.

The UNLV administration released a two-page summary of the report earlier
this month that said university police policies were vague, police lacked
experience executing search warrants and the police lacked leadership.

Carlton, chair of a subcommittee that could recommend whether legislative
changes to the university police administration, said she is frustrated
with the inability to get a copy of the full report.

"It's rather hard to keep an open mind on this issue when you don't have
all the information," she said.

Rebecca Mills, UNLV vice president of student life, has said the report's
findings will lead to an overhaul of the university police administration,
including clarification of police duties, specification of the police chain
of command and a change in the policy of dealing with confidential informants.

Mills could not be reached for comment Monday. University officials
referred questions to the university system's general counsel's office.

"Release of that report by us would be a violation of the Nevada code,"
said Karl Armstrong, assistant general counsel. "That report was produced
specifically for personnel purposes."

A court order is the only thing that will make the report public, he said.

UNLV administrators also have refused to release the report to the Board of
Regents, the UNLV Campus Public Safety Advisory Committee, the Las Vegas
Sun and attorney John Moran Jr., who represents 19-year-old UNLV student
Graig Adler, charged as a result of the drug raid.

Armstrong said the report contained information that didn't specifically
address personnel issues, information which UNLV used to draft proposed
changes to police administration and procedures. But information on
university police officers was mixed with the other passages, he said, so
even a portion of the report cannot be released.

UNLV has said three officers face disciplinary action as a result of the raid.

Adler was charged with felony drug offenses stemming from the raid on Boyd
Hall. University police initially said they had recovered drug
paraphernalia, baggies of opium and marijuana in the raid.

But according to UNLV, the raid actually netted four tablets of the
designer drug Ecstasy and a small amount of marijuana.