#UniversityPolice #CampusSecurity #Texas #IDCheck
Hey everyone! Have you ever been in a situation where you were asked to show identification by university police for simply sitting in the backseat of a car on campus? 🤔 Well, that’s exactly what happened to me recently, and I have some questions that I’d love to get your thoughts on:
1. In a case like this, would it have been within my rights to offer to leave the university premises instead of providing identification to the officer?
2. How serious could this “police report” be on my record, and will it impact encounters with law enforcement in the future?
I’d appreciate any insights or advice you have on navigating situations like these. Let’s discuss and share our experiences to help each other out! 🚔💬
I’m not sure about Texas, but some states campus police can request ID at any time from someone on campus. It will depend on how the law is worded.
OMG a person at a college campus crying?!? What absurdity!
You’re fine.
This cop was likely a well meaning person worried about the safety of your girlfriend potentially being coerced at best or forced at worst into something she wasn’t comfortable with, and was probably intentionally trying to scare you so as to disincentivize whatever potentially non-consensual activities might otherwise happen in the backseat of a parked car.
Assuming you are being truthful and aren’t the reason for your girlfriend’s tears, don’t worry about it.
Imagine campus police finding an isolated car with a man and woman, the woman crying, the man refusing to provide ID, and then the officer just going about her nightly duties.
Why are you putting police report in quotes? University police are virtually always, especially at state/public schools, sworn officers
>She told me that the university police were “allowed to view identification”
That sounds similar to “we can ask anyone for ID.” It doesn’t answer the question of whether someone like yourself is required to show it.
In Texas, as a general rule, people don’t have to identify themselves to police unless they are being arrested.
Was it in the back of a Volkswagen?
1. Yes. 2. Don’t worry, is formality of american systems currently in place.
Further: Officer was right to query on intial observation on report of “presumed female crying in backseat of a car with a presumed adult male” but had no need to demand ID unless it is a compulsory University policy.
This does feel like overzealous policing, people sit in back seats (US) because being in the front means you are in “control” of the vehicle’s hydraulic transmission transference system. [(Clutches, brakes, handbrake, neutraliser-accelerator.)]
I am an attorney, but not your attorney.
There is nothing here. The report doesn’t go anywhere. It won’t be on any record with your name on it. There won’t be any ability for future cops to see it.
She probably won’t even write a report because absolutely no laws were broken. Even if she did, since again, no laws were broken, the report would be reviewed, then trashed because again, no laws were broken.