The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office has subpoenaed Rutgers U. for e-mails regarding University first-year student Tyler Clementi’s complaint that his roommate, School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Dharun Ravi, used a webcam to spy on him and his sexual encounter with another male, according to The Star-Ledger.
Investigators believed the University was not fully cooperating with the investigation of 18-year-old Clementi – who committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge shortly after Ravi’s alleged actions – two officials unauthorized to speak because of the case’s ongoing nature told the Ledger.
“The investigation is continuing and we can’t comment further,” the prosecutor’s spokesman James O’Neill told the Ledger.
University spokesman E.J. Miranda said the Rutgers University Police Department and the University is working with the prosecutor’s office in the investigation.
A subpoena is required in some instances before the University can release certain confidential student records federally protected by FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, he said.
“Confidential student records covered under FERPA include student grades, student conduct records, and electronic communication between the student and University administrators,” Miranda said.