Virginia Tech is appealing a $55,000 fine from the Department of Education for violating federal law by waiting too long to notify students during the 2007 massacre on the Blacksburg campus.
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said the school is appealing to “compel the DOE to treat Virginia Tech fairly and to apply a very poorly defined and subjectively applied federal law consistently and correctly.”
The DOE says the university was too slow in waiting two hours to notify the campus about a gunman after two students were shot in a dormitory on April 16, 2007. Seung-Hui Cho then shot 30 others before killing himself. The $55,000 fine was the maximum the school could receive for its violations of the Clery Act.
Emily Babay
