UMass Amherst campus police will temporarily stop using students as confidential informants while the practice is being reviewed by university officials.
Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy ordered the program suspended after a Boston Sunday Globe report on the heroin overdose death of a 20 year- old student who was a confidential informant. School spokesman Ed Blaguszewski said the program could be terminated or revised to include mandatory substance abuse treatment for student informants and notification of their parents.
" Currently, there are no student confidential informants and no active cases involving them. So, no ongoing investigations are affected by this," said Blagaszewski.
The student in the Globe story, who was not identified by his real name, turned informant so his parents would not find out he’d been caught selling drugs.
