University of Utah President Ruth Watkins will announce Friday morning the team that will conduct an independent investigation into the school’s police department and its protocols after a student was shot to death on campus last week.
Watkins has said the review will focus on policies and not on individual officers’ conduct. The university and its police department, though, have faced questions for how campus detectives handled complaints of extortion reported by student and track athlete Lauren McCluskey in the weeks before her death.
The man she alleged was involved in the harassment, Melvin Rowland, killed her Oct.