UVA president blames feds for response to Rolling Stone debacle

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'University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan blamed federal privacy regulations for her school's failure to debunk the Rolling Stone gang-rape story.

Those regulations did not stop her from treating innocent people as rapists, however.

Sullivan, speaking to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, said the school couldn't counter the Rolling Stone article about a now discredited accusation of a brutal gang rape because of a law known as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.

"The university couldn't say it wasn't true because of FERPA," said Sullivan, referring to federal student privacy law. "And the only reason I can say it to you now is because there's a police chief's report, which is not FERPA-protected."'