Waldman, Scott. "A six-figure salary hike for Jackson; 2009-2010 pay puts RPI president's earnings at $2.3M." Albany Times Union. October 16, 2012. http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/A-six-figure-salary-hike-for-Jackson-3951348.php
In spite of that, in 2010 when it had been time for RPI to hire a new director of public safety, they went with the head of the State University of New York (SUNY)'s police operations, an odd choice given that SUNY's police operations are known to be...not so good, shall we say?:
"Johnson served as assistant vice chancellor for University Police for the State University of New York (SUNY) for the past eight years. In that capacity, he was responsible for the coordination of university police operations for the State University of New York campuses across the state. Under the direction of the chancellor and the SUNY Board of Trustees, he coordinated policies, procedures, hiring, and operational standards for each police department within the SUNY system. He was the primary contact for university police chiefs, community college directors of public safety, and the police and security unions, and he represented the university on law enforcement and safety legislation among external constituents. Prior to that statewide assignment with SUNY, Johnson served as the director of the State University of New York Police Academy.""Director of Public Safety Named." Inside Rensselaer 4(12). August 27, 2010. http://www.rpi.edu/about/inside/issue/v4n12/safety.html
RPI later hired Roger Johnson's replacement at SUNY, David Schindler, as RPI's Associate Director of the Department of Public Safety to serve under Johnson, despite SUNY police operations under Schindler having continued to be just as bad, if not worse, than they had been under Johnson.
James Lyman, Executive Director of Council 82 for the New York State Law Enforcement Officers Union had stated:
"there are police chiefs in SUNY who are not mandating policer [sic] officers, certified, whatever. We have police chiefs that refuse to voluntarily give up their fingerprints"(108) [bold emphasis added] http://www.nysenate.gov/files/SUNY%20testimony%20pt.%202.PDF
Peter Barry, Vice President and Legislative Director of New York State University Police Officers Union, Local 1792 of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, AFSCME, Council 82 and AFL-CIO stated:
"decentralized structure promotes erroneous crime reporting and record keeping. One possible cause for this is that SUNY police chiefs serve at the pleasure of the campus president, thus are motivated to keep crime stats down by any means. [...] SUNY can no longer afford to staff, or overstaff, a body which is subject to inefficiencies, manipulation, cronyism, ill motivation and mismanagement"(127-128) [bold emphasis added] http://www.nysenate.gov/files/SUNY%20Testimony%20pt.%203.PDF
UAlbany police should have only had one sexual offender registry, but instead they had two different, separate ones simultaneously online, both of them misinforming the public for years:
• Sexual Offender Registry #1 "© 2009 University at Albany"
"There are currently three (4) [sic] registered sex offenders enrolled or working at the University. The following Information has been released:" was followed by a list of six (6) offenders. Accessed: October 19, 2012 Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6BXAjbUOP Accessed: February 19, 2013 Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6EZ55k2vF (it still read © 2009 at that time)
• Sexual Offender Registry #2 No date (probably circa 2007-2008)
"There are currently two (2) registered sex offenders enrolled at the University. The following Information has been released:" was followed by a list of three (3) offenders. Accessed: October 19, 2012 Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6BXAsiiOT http://police.albany.edu/2ColPage.asp?PageSName=SOR2 now redirects to UPD's homepage
There was an audit by the NYS Comptroller's Office in 2007 with a follow-up in 2009 http://osc.state.ny.us/audits/allaudits/093009/07s121.htm which found a number of problems, but it evidently failed to take note of the mismanagement of the sexual offender registry. The Registry gets referenced in the Clery Act Report http://police.albany.edu/ASR.pdf on page 53, the claim being there that it was being maintained - when clearly (the above archives) it was not being maintained properly. At least part of page 53 was not written for the report but was instead copied and pasted from the website: "The DCJS Sex Offender Registry site may be found on the web (See the link to the right)" (there's no link to the right in the PDF).
The Comptroller's Office thanked me for informing them of the non-compliance, but took no action on it as far as I know. I was informed on October 22, 2012, "We have provided the information you supplied with your email to staff in our State Government Accountability for their consideration with respect to future audit planning." The Registry continued to be dated 2009 until sometime after my last archive on February 19, 2013 when it was updated to 2013.
One would think Ms. Jackson is not paid $2.3 million plus in order to hire men of Johnson and Schindler's "quality" (unless she is paid so much for that very reason, which raises a whole different set of questions). Instead, one would presume she is paid so much to guarantee nothing of that sort ever happens, a task at which she has consistently failed. Perhaps the problem is that she's paid so much that there's no money left to hire anyone to lead RPI's public safety department except for SUNY's rejects?
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