Dive Brief:

• University of Missouri officials improperly withheld information from police about allegations that the school’s football players had committed rape, according to a report by independent investigators.
• The report was commissioned after ESPN aired a report in January about Sasha Menu Courey, a former swimmer at the university who committed suicide in 2011 after accusing football players of assaulting her.
• Mizzou President Timothy Wolfe called the report fair and accurate, and pledged to work on its recommendations.

Dive Insight:

The report, commissioned by the governing body of the University of Missouri system, found that university officials should have acted in November 2012, when it discovered a chat transcript where Menu Courey alleged a sexual assault by multiple football players and a medical questionnaire where she had written that she had been raped by an acquaintance. The university officials should have shared the information they had with police or the campus Title IX compliance officer at that time, but they did not, the report said.