UC President James B. Milliken released a statement Oct. 3 addressing the university’s cooperation with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, which included UC Berkeley’s release of about 160 student, staff and faculty names. The letter claims that in the course of an investigation into campus’s response to complaints of antisemitic discrimination, the Office of Civil Rights, or OCR, demanded unredacted case files and police reports. Milliken said UC requests to keep documents anonymized were denied by the OCR, and a June agreement was made to release the unredacted files “as a last resort.” A supporting FAQ released by the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, clarified that the university did not produce a “list of individuals,” although the files included names and, in some instances, contact details of complainants, respondents and witnesses. However, further information on the details of the original request was not provided in the FAQ, and UCOP declined to ...