786 So. 2d 927 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “| ^Universities have a duty to provide a safe campus and to act with a reasonable regard for the students’ safety. The presence of a security guard in a position where he can be seen by potential criminals has a deterrent effect on criminal activity in the area. Although a university also has a duty to implement reasonable measures to protect its students on the premises ■ from criminal acts, those criminal acts must be foreseeable.... Universities do-not stand in loco parentis — in the place of parents— to their students. Attempts to foster the educational process and the growth and maturation of the students have relieved universities of many of their protective duties. Modem college students are considered adults capable of protecting their own interests. They demand and receive increased autonomy and decreased regulation both on and off campus.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 197 So. 3d 366 - Chatman v. Southern University at New Orleans

2. “the universities’ general duty to provide a safe campus and to act with reasonable regard for their students’ safety remained constant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 197 So. 3d 366 - Chatman v. Southern University at New Orleans