On April 14, 1997, 21-year-old Malik Jones was shot and killed by an East Haven police officer at close range after the officer pursued Malik’s car, and Jones did not pull over. In the years following Malik’s death, Emma Jones sued the town of East Haven and embarked on years of advocacy work and demonstrations against police misconduct. Among the fruits of her efforts was the 2020 revamping of New Haven’s Civilian Review Board.

At the Monday evening gathering, located at the corner where Malik was killed, Jones unveiled plans to purchase a small plot of land at that intersection to house the Malik Jones Social Justice Organization.

“This is going to be the future home of nothing but pure joy for the community,” Jones said. “It’s going to be the opportunity for people to come and to learn some things about what happened here on that particularly awful day … We are not here to talk about all of the specifics around what we’re going to do, but we are definitely kicking off, starting today, a fundraiser to purchase this property.”

A banner hung on the fence separating the sidewalk from the vacant lot behind Jones as she addressed the dozens gathered. The banner featured a projected image of the organization’s prospective building and advertised the organization’s website, calling on passersby to support the cause.

According to Jones’ website, the organization, also called the M.A.L.I.K Organization, aims to create a community space to honor stories of fighting for justice in the face of adversity, as well as offer “essential resources and support to those in need.” At the gathering, Jones acknowledged that she has not yet figured out the organization’s title acronym.

“Never before in the history of police brutality in America has a mother had the opportunity to purchase the property where her son was killed by law enforcement and transform it into a space that supports, acknowledges, and empowers families and community members who have endured similar tragedies,” the site reads.

A handful of Jones’s friends and family also spoke at Monday’s event, sharing anecdotes and poems about Malik. Reggie Hoffler, a longtime friend of Jones who said he had attended the annual memorial for the past two decades, emphasized the diversity and youth of the crowd.

Cars and motorcycles whizzed by, frequently honking their horns and revving their engines in support of Malik.

In October, the Board of Alders voted to rename the corner of Grand Avenue and Murphy Drive, where Malik Jones was killed, the “Emma Jones Justice for Malik Corner.”

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On March 5, the Connecticut Department of Revenue Services plastered a yellow “Suspended” sign on the York Street storefront’s glass doors, barring the eclectic donut cafe from continuing sales out of that address. The sign specifies that Donut Crazy’s New Haven location’s sales permit was suspended according to a state statute, which states that if a person fails to comply with their prescribed sales tax regulations, their permits may be revoked or suspended.

New permits may be issued once the department’s commissioner “is satisfied that the former holder of the permit will comply” with sales tax regulations, according to the statute.

Jason Wojnarowski, Donut Crazy’s owner, did not respond to the News’ requests for comment despite multiple attempts. Wojnarowski also declined to comment to the New Haven Independent on the storefront’s closure in March.

The Department of Revenue Services declined to comment on specific cases.

Donut Crazy New Haven’s telephone number is now “temporarily unavailable,” and the store’s social media has not been active since before the suspension.

“It’s sad because I would go there to get coffee or gluten-free food when I wanted a study break,” said Lelah Shapiro ’27, citing the storefront’s convenient proximity to popular study locations — including Bass and Sterling Libraries — when explaining the impact of the store’s sudden closure.

Shapiro elaborated that though coffee shops like Common Grounds remain accessible as alternative quick dining options on the block, Donut Crazy utilised SnackPass services. SnackPass, a social media ordering application created by Yalies in 2016, enables its users to order ahead at local New Haven restaurants and earn loyalty points and discounts where possible.

“The prices were good,” said Sasha Foer ’28, who, like Shapiro, ordered from Donut Crazy on a weekly basis. “The donuts were good. There are alternative locations for a sweet pick-me-up, like Ashley’s, [but] they’re less accessible.” 

Donut Crazy, founded in 2011, launched its New Haven location, the fourth in the franchise, in October 2016. Originally a late-night dessert cafe open past midnight, the donut shop’s hours had been reduced by the time it closed, though its interior decor — darkened lights, red neon signs and leather couches — still resembled a bar lounge.

In 2024, Donut Crazy closed its locations in Branford and Fairfield. The Fairfield location had opened only a year prior.

Donut Crazy currently operates storefronts in West Hartford, Shelton, Stratford and Westport, Conn.

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Otilio Green was arrested on Friday by State Police troopers and charged with a state-level count of possession of child sexual abuse material — pornographic images and videos of children under 14 years old — following a joint state-federal investigation which linked his mobile account to the uploaded explicit files. After bonding out of State Police custody that day, Green was immediately detained by agents from the federal Homeland Security Investigations task force. On Monday, the Justice Department formally charged Green with possessing and receiving child pornography.

After Green’s Friday arrest, he was placed on paid administrative leave by the YPD and barred from entering the University’s campus, a Yale spokesperson wrote on Monday.

At a detention hearing on Tuesday, a federal judge in Bridgeport set Green’s bond at $200,000 and granted Green’s motion to be released from custody, per online federal court records.

On Friday, a federal prosecutor filed a motion to keep Green in pretrial detention. The motion argued that the nature of the child exploitation charges and the weight of the evidence against Green made it such that “no condition or combination of conditions of release will reasonably assure the safety of any other person and the community.” Each of Green’s federal charges carries a maximum prison sentence of 20 years.

Green’s attorney filed an opposing motion on Monday to release Green from custody. The lawyer proposed that Green would live in his father’s home in West Haven, and that his father, retired, would “supervise” him. The motion noted that a home visit had been conducted and that probation officers had  confirmed that Green’s father’s home is “not hooked up to the Internet.”

The motion suggested that Green’s wife, aunt and cousin serve as bond “co-signers” with Green’s father. Co-signers are responsible for ensuring that the accused individual appears in court; if they do not, they are financially responsible for the $200,000 bond.

Green’s attorney proposed that the bond package include home detention with GPS monitoring, supervised family visits, restricting travel outside of the state, surrendering Green’s passport and prohibiting internet access with the exception of one device. That device’s internet usage would be monitored by probation officers. The proposed bond package also included mental health treatment with a psychologist at the federal public defenders’ office.

The judge agreed to release Green, but under tighter conditions. Instead of home detention, which would allow Green to leave his residence for employment, religious, educational or medical reasons, Green was released from custody on the condition of home incarceration. Home incarceration restricts him to “24-hour-a-day lockdown” with the exceptions of medical necessities, court appearances and “activities specifically approved by the court.” The order clears Green to leave his residence for mental health treatment.

On top of the conditions proposed by his attorney, Green’s release conditions specify that he must avoid “any contact with children under age of 18 or loiter[ing] around any area where they are known to congregate.”

Green will attend his next bond hearing on May 6.

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Otilio Green, who has worked for the YPD for at least four years, was arrested by the Connecticut State Police after a joint state-federal investigation linked images and videos of child sexual abuse material to his phone number. After bonding out of State Police custody on Friday, Green was immediately detained by federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations task force.

On Monday, the Justice Department announced that Green will be federally prosecuted for possession and receipt of child pornography, on top of a state-level charge for possession of child sexual abuse material in the first degree.  

Green, whose profile is still listed on Yale’s staff directory as of Monday night, has been placed on paid administrative leave because of the arrest, Yale’s Office of Public Affairs and Communications confirmed to the News on Monday.

“Officer Green is prohibited from entering Yale police headquarters or any other university buildings or property,” the University spokesperson wrote.

Affidavits written by State Police detective Jonathan Carreiro and federal Homeland Security Investigations special agent Molly Reale each describe the investigation that prompted Green’s charges. 

Homeland Security Investigations — or HSI — and state police began investigating Green after receiving a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, or NCMEC, a nonprofit that runs a “CyberTipline” which collects and investigates reports of suspected online child sexual abuse material, and then alerts relevant law enforcement agencies. 

On March 27, according to Carreiro’s affidavit, the State Police began investigating eight CyberTipline reports submitted by Synchronoss Technologies, a cloud backup platform. Synchronoss reported, which they are required to do per federal statute, that five images and 43 videos of suspected child sexual abuse material had been uploaded to an account associated with Green’s Verizon Wireless number. 

Carreiro reviewed the suspected files and determined that all of the images and 42 of the 43 videos fit the definition of child sexual abuse material. Since October 2024, Connecticut’s penal code has used the phrase “child sexual abuse material” instead of  “child pornography.”

Carreiro and Reale described the content of some of the files in their affidavits. The descriptions included videos of adults performing various sexual acts on undressed or half-dressed children between the ages of one and 14 years old.

“Based on my training and experience and that of my law enforcement colleagues, I know that some of the 43 videos in the CyberTipline reports are from ‘known series’ of child pornography,” Reale wrote. “That is, these videos depict a minor who has previously been identified by NCMEC.”

According to Reale’s affidavit, the CyberTipline reports provided IP addresses connected to Green’s Verizon account at the times he uploaded the material. Several of the IP addresses are registered to Green’s residence in Hamden. Two are associated with an IP address belonging to Yale University, Reale wrote.

On March 28, Carreiro filed a search and seizure warrant with the Connecticut Superior Court in Meriden, asking permission to search Green’s Verizon account. Carreiro got access to the account on April 1, and located the files flagged in the CyberTipline reports, 57 additional files of suspected child sexual abuse material and other media that connected the account to Green — including selfies, bills, screenshots of work schedules and a photograph of Green’s Yale work identification, according to Reale’s affidavit.

The explicit material was uploaded between January and March this year.

On Friday, Green was arrested on the job, according to a State Police news release, and taken to New Haven’s federal courthouse to be processed. He was released on a $100,000 “non-surety” bond — an agreement in which the arrested individual promises to appear in court on an assigned date, or else pay the bond in full.

Immediately following his release, Green was taken into custody by federal agents from the HSI task force, according to a State Police report. The task force was investigating Green for “related” federal child sexual abuse material possession charges. 

A federal prosecutor filed a motion on Friday to keep Green in custody while he awaits trial. A detention hearing to consider the pretrial detention is scheduled for Tuesday.

On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it would prosecute Green for charges of possessing and receiving child pornography.

Green’s federal charges are each punishable by up to 20 years in prison. His state-level first-degree charge of possessing child sexual abuse material — a Class B felony — can be punishable by up to 20 years in prison, and carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years, according to Connecticut’s penal code. 

Green is scheduled to be arraigned for the state-level charge on April 16 in Meriden, Conn. He is slated to appear before a federal judge in Bridgeport on April 17.

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In the library, the officers found the suspect seated at a desk carrying money, with a supposed firearm visible in their pocket, Yale Police Department Chief Anthony Campbell wrote to the News. Upon taking the individual into custody, the officers determined that the weapon was fake.

YPD Lieutenant Jay Jones, who supervised the arrest, said that the arrestee was “probably not” a Yale student or affiliate. YPD Chief Anthony Campbell clarified that the department has “no information regarding any Yale affiliation.”

“The 28-year-old individual was taken into custody without incident,” Campbell wrote to the News on Thursday evening. “The investigation remains active and at this point the person’s identity remains unknown.”

According to Campbell, the arrestee was charged with breach of peace in the second degree — a catch-all charge for social disturbance — and with brandishing a fake firearm. He added that further charges might be added depending on the result of the police department’s ongoing investigation into the incident.

Students seated on the top floor of Bass, adjacent to Room C80A, reported that around 1:40 p.m., a person seated at a wooden cubicle was arrested. According to Kierstin Gehres ’27, who was seated across from the cubicle where the arrested individual sat, the officers entered Bass through the tunnel from Sterling Library and approached the individual. 

Campbell wrote to the News that a responding officer observed “what appeared to be a black handgun” sticking out from the individual’s pocket.

“The item was immediately secured, and a second similar item was observed in the opposite pocket,” Campbell wrote. “Both items were determined to be realistic-looking facsimile firearms” — convincing copies of the weapons.

Campbell noted that officers learned that the individual was also in possession of multiple live nine-millimeter cartridges and a four-inch folding lock blade knife.

After taking away the false weapons, the officers escorted the individual out of the library. Officers were spotted surrounding two police vehicles parked on Alexander Walk, the path between Beinecke Plaza and Berkeley College, at approximately 2 p.m. A third police car was parked at the end of the walkway, on College Street. 

Officers escorted the individual to a police vehicle. The police cars left the area at approximately 2:10 p.m., with one driving along Alexander Walk towards York Street and the other towards College Street. 

Thursday’s arrest marked the second YPD action on Cross Campus in two days, after officers took into custody an individual allegedly attempting to break into Berkeley College with a cloned ID card. Jones said that this frequency of on-campus arrests is not unusual for the campus police. 

The Yale Police Department was founded in 1894.

Olivia Woo, Jerry Gao, Baala Shakya, Yolanda Wang and Karla Cortes contributed reporting.

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Yale Police Department officers apprehended and arrested a 28-year-old individual, who is not a Yale student, on Cross Campus after tracking a cloned ID card that they had used to gain access to the  residential college, Yale Police Chief Anthony Campbell told the News on Wednesday. According to a probable cause report filed by YPD Officer Tristan Keikel, Yale Security had monitored the cloned card since March 28, when it was used in conjunction with a bicycle theft from Morse College.

Upon detaining the individual and searching through their bag, the responding YPD officers found a mini tool set, a box cutter and bolt cutters, and a Husky wrench. Officers then searched for the cloned ID in Berkeley College. They eventually located it in the trash can of a basement bathroom in the college, according to the probable cause report.

“Detective [Eric] Bailey swiped the duplicate ID we found in the bathroom,” Keikel wrote, “which security confirmed it was in fact the duplicated card that was flagged.”

Upon arresting the individual, YPD detectives asked them if they would go to the YPD headquarters for questioning, to which the arrestee declined and asked for an attorney, according to the report. YPD Detective Gregg Curran then told the arrestee that “further law enforcement action would be taken” if the individual were to enter Yale-owned property again, the report says.

At the individual’s arraignment on Thursday, the judge, Brian Fischer, ordered the arrestee to stay off all University properties.

Prior to the arrest, the cloned ID was swiped at three locations on Wednesday, according to the report: a gate into Berkeley South, a Berkeley entryway and the Berkeley dining hall. Because Yale Security had disabled the false ID when they began tracking it, the individual tried to swipe multiple times at each location. They eventually entered Berkeley after another person swiped in and let them through.

YPD Lieutenant Jay Jones told the News on Thursday that it was not common for the YPD to learn of an ID being cloned.

“This case is the only one I can think of, and I’ve been here 33 years,” Jones told the News on Thursday.

The individual bonded out of detention on Thursday afternoon. They are scheduled to next appear in court on April 24.

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According to YPD Chief Anthony Campbell, police tracked the cloned card after it was used in a burglary at Berkeley last week. Campbell said that the arrestee was not a Yale student or affiliate and that they matched a description of the individual who carried out last week’s burglary, based on video footage of the incident that officers observed.

“We think they’re one and the same,” Campbell told the News.

The University spokesperson wrote to the News that YPD officers were able to quickly locate and arrest the suspect after Yale Dispatch alerted them that the cloned ID had been used at multiple Berkeley entrances. The officers also recovered the falsified ID, according to the spokesperson.

Officers first stopped the suspect around 12:50 p.m. The arrestee told the officer repeatedly that they had an ID card in their bag. Officers proceeded to search through a backpack and a shopping bag that the individual was carrying before the arrest.

Around 1 p.m., the officers led the arrestee away from Cross Campus toward the sidewalk on College Street. There, officers handcuffed the arrestee and brought them into a police car.

Campbell told the News that the arrestee is currently in custody at the New Haven Police Department’s detention center, as of 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, YPD officers continued to search the areas in and around Berkeley, including trash and recycling bins, entryways near the Elm Street gate and surrounding bushes on Cross Campus. Two officers removed trash and recycling bags from the bins near Berkeley’s common room entrance and brought them to an unmarked car parked on Rose Walk in front of Sterling Memorial Library.

Campbell explained that both uniformed and plainclothes officers were involved in the arrest. He said that the plainclothes officers were detectives from the YPD’s detective bureau, who wear plainclothes and “operate throughout campus” at all times. The chief explained that plainclothes detectives worked to surveil the suspect after Yale Dispatch located where the false ID was used, before bringing uniformed officers to make an arrest.

“They were following where the person was trying to use the ID,” Campbell said.

Yale switched to an electronic access system in 1994, which is based on radio-frequency identification technology, or RFID. When held against a card reader, each Yale ID sends out a unique 26-bit number, which is then compared with a centralized list of IDs with access. Because the number associated with an ID does not change, Yale’s ID cards can be prone to cloning if an unauthorized individual reads the card.

On Saturday, Yale Public Safety announced that access to academic buildings — usually open during working hours — would be restricted to ID carriers at all times, beginning on Monday. Campbell called that policy change an “administrative” decision, and said that it was unrelated to the YPD’s attempts to take into custody the burglary suspect.

Campbell did not provide a reason for the restricted access policy, saying it was “above [his] pay grade.” Yale’s Office of Public Affairs and Communications previously communicated that the policy change was due to the “busy time at the end of the semester.”

New guidance from Yale Public Safety instructs community members to ask law enforcement agents spotted on campus who they suspect might be from an “outside” agency for their credentials. If the agents are not YPD officers, the students are instructed to call the YPD’s non-emergency line and wait for an officer to arrive.

Berkeley College, one of Yale’s 14 residential colleges, has entrances on Elm Street, Alexander Walk and Cross Campus.

Nora Moses, Yolanda Wang, Josie Reich, Baala Shakya, Isobel McClure and Jerry Gao contributed reporting.

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Project Longevity was launched in 2012 in New Haven, Hartford and Bridgeport as a gun violence reduction initiative. In late 2021, the state-funded Justice Education Center became the statewide administrative and coordinating arm for the program, allowing Project Longevity to enhance its operations, Kate Gunning, the program’s state coordinator, explained to the Board of Alders’ public safety committee on Monday.

That enhancement included new energy directed toward helping families and juveniles through youth services and even helping families move out of New Haven when they are repeatedly threatened by community violence. The program has continued its efforts to provide services to formerly incarcerated individuals through a partnership with the New Haven Police Department.

“Project Longevity, up until 2022, didn’t touch juveniles,” New Haven Police Chief Karl Jacobson told the public safety committee. “It was 18 and over, group or gang violence. They really didn’t look at anybody outside of that group. But we went to them and said, ‘We need more.’”

Designed as a “group violence intervention” approach, Project Longevity partners with local law enforcement to offer career, housing, food, health and other services to individuals who are under probation or parole.

If the formerly incarcerated individual continues to be associated with crime or gang activity, Project Longevity tries a more direct in-person intervention to notify the individuals of the consequences of criminal activity. If the criminal behavior continues, the individual is rearrested. The initiative was controversial among some criminal justice advocates in New Haven for its partnership with law enforcement.

At Monday’s public safety hearing, the Project Longevity delegation highlighted a “new approach” to the program, featuring expanded housing assistance and drivers’ education programs, as well as more outreach and larger roles for case management and care coordination agencies.

Jacobson described how he has partnered with Project Longevity to brainstorm potential solutions to the city’s juvenile theft epidemic by engaging the adolescents involved.

“We were talking about getting on board someone that does car repair, and teaching some of the Kia Boyz to repair cars,” Jacobson said. “We’re trying to think outside the box.”

Alder Honda Smith, who represents Ward 30 in West Hills, concurred with the proposal to teach car repair to “Kia Boyz” — adolescents who have gone viral online for stealing vehicles. Although auto theft rates have declined in New Haven in the past year, the Kia Boyz phenomenon has remained a priority for the city’s police department.

Smith explained that she has worked with self-identified Kia Boyz through the Shack, a community center in her district that she helped revive. Since its 2022 opening, the Shack has offered educational programming, food assistance and community gatherings to West Hills.

“I talk to Kia Boyz every day,” Smith told the News, explaining that the adolescents sometimes come to the Shack for meals. “I go and find them in the street.”

Through her work, which she said complements Project Longevity’s holistic approach, Smith has helped to pair young community members with educational opportunities and — for those old enough — employment. She believes that some of the adolescents she works with have “turned their lives around.” 

Project Longevity has also partnered with the police department on youth-focused activities like “midnight basketball” at Hillhouse High School to keep young individuals off the streets, which Jacobson said was only financially possible with Project Longevity’s help.

Gunning told the News that Project Longevity has supported “a lot more families” in New Haven due to recent youth-involved shootings.

Gunning and Jacobson highlighted the partnership’s recently adopted strategy of assisting a New Haven family threatened by ongoing violence to relocate elsewhere in the state or the country. Jacobson told the News in January that the department has opted for this approach in cases of youth violence that threatens to continue.

Amid the Trump administration’s large-scale federal funding cuts, Project Longevity may soon lose “over $290,000,” according to Tirzah Kemp, the city’s community resilience chief. 

Kemp explained that the office is proactively working on a contingency plan to offset a potential loss of federal funding. She noted that the office has made contact with several philanthropic organizations and is working to minimize costs.

Alder Brian Wingate, who chairs the public safety committee, told the News he was worried about the potential impact of funding cuts on the city’s violence prevention structures. However, he emphasized the “passion” of the Project Longevity and Office of Violence Prevention representatives who spoke at the committee hearing, describing his efforts to highlight their work as “proactive.”

“We want to put a bigger light on Project Longevity going forward,” Wingate said. “We all want New Haven to be a safe haven.” 

Project Longevity now operates in New Haven, Hartford, Bridgeport, Waterbury, Norwich and New London.

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On Friday evening, rumors circulated among Yalies that ICE agents in civilian clothes had been spotted near campus, according to multiple students who spoke to the News on the condition of anonymity. A Yale administrator said that rumors suspecting ICE agents were near campus on Friday night are “false.”

A University spokesperson did not confirm nor deny whether Yale Public Safety’s swipe access policy update is related to the University’s recent communications and guidelines about potential ICE encounters on campus.

Instead, the University spokesperson wrote, “We are heading into a busy time at the end of the semester and prioritize the safety of our community members.”

Yale Public Safety’s announcement does not mention outside law enforcement and instead references University President Maurie McInnis’s upcoming inauguration and the University commencement in May as reasons for the policy update and reminder.

Yale, local police say no ICE presence reported

On Friday evening, some residential college leadership called international students living off campus to offer them the option of staying on campus overnight, according to two students who received these calls. Other students with an empty bed in their suites were asked over email late Friday night by at least one Head of College to “make sure that this bed is clear” and “note that a student may be placed in that bed at any time,” according to communications obtained by the News.

On Saturday, one international student who spoke under the condition of anonymity told the News that some of their friends in the international community began panicking after hearing the rumors of an ICE sighting, and that most believed them to be true. The News could not independently verify the source of the rumor or when it began.

“I was not too worried but it felt like something that was hanging over us since January was now here,” the student said, referring to the Jan. 20 inauguration of President Donald Trump, who promised stricter immigration policies throughout his campaign. 

While Ozan Say, the director of the Office of International Students and Scholars, declined to comment on the communications with off-campus international students, he clarified that “ICE presence near campus yesterday is a false rumor” in an email to the News on Saturday morning.

A University spokesperson reaffirmed on Saturday evening that the University had not received any notice of immigration agents on campus.

New Haven Police Chief Karl Jacobson told the News on Saturday morning that he was “not aware of any incidents” of ICE activity or presence from Friday night. Though New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker has told the News that ICE has historically notified the NHPD when it intends to operate within the city, an NHPD spokesperson clarified that the federal agency does not always do so. 

Public Safety, international students office post guidelines for ICE encounters 

A list of frequently asked questions about immigration on the Office of International Students and Scholars website, posted on Friday, states that Yale will “not allow” ICE agents to enter “non-public” areas on campus without a subpoena or judicial warrant. 

The OISS webpage clarifies that such “non-public” areas include “all classrooms, research and teaching labs, offices, dormitories or housing.” The page does not provide more details on how University officials might prevent or restrict law enforcement agents from accessing such spaces.

The webpage instructs students who witness or encounter an ICE representative “while on campus” to immediately call the YPD’s non-emergency number. 

New guidance on the Yale Public Safety website homepage instructs Yale community members who encounter “any non-YPD personnel on campus, including those from immigration enforcement” to ask for the agent’s credentials and request that they wait in a public area for the YPD to arrive. The guidance also notes that “YPD does not enforce U.S. immigration law.”

A one-page document with more detailed guidance published on the Public Safety website also instructs community members to contact Yale’s Office of General Counsel if they are approached by law enforcement.

The OISS webpage affirms that Yale will not voluntarily allow federal immigration enforcement agencies to obtain or review student and employee records, personal information or non-public research without a subpoena or judicial warrant. If a warrant is procured, the University will notify the student or employee in question, unless prohibited from doing so.

The University has stated that it can connect students with short-term legal representation and that it will help international students denied reentry into the U.S. “by advising on resources for immigration assistance and academic options.”

Yale’s new guidance on encountering federal law enforcement follows the federal government’s detainment of multiple international students and scholars, including individuals who publicly expressed pro-Palestinian views during the past year’s nationwide protests relating to the war in Gaza. ICE detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University alum and green card holder, on March 9 and Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student at Tufts University on a student visa, on March 25.

Public Safety updates campus building access policies

In an email to the Yale community on Saturday night, Duane Lovello, head of Public Safety, announced new policies on restricted access to University buildings. 

Starting at noon on Monday, “access to academic buildings and classrooms will require an active university ID,” the email reads.According to the email, buildings open to the public, such as libraries and museums, will remain “greenlit.”

The message also reiterated safety reminders for the Yale community, which included reporting suspicious activity to the Yale Police Department, locking doors and windows and downloading the Livesafe app. 

This is a developing story.

Yurii Stasiuk contributed reporting.

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Philosophy professor Jason Stanley announced this week that he will leave Yale, while history professors Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore, who are married, decided to leave around the November elections. The three professors will work at Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. 

Stanley wrote to the Daily Nous that his decision to leave was “entirely because of the political climate in the United States.” On Wednesday, he told the Guardian that he chose to move after seeing how Columbia University handled political attacks from Trump. 

After the Trump administration threatened to deport two student protesters at Columbia and revoked $400 million in research funding from the school, Columbia agreed on Friday to concede to a series of demands from the Trump administration that included overhauling its protest policies and imposing external oversight on the school’s Middle Eastern studies department.

“When I saw Columbia completely capitulate, and I saw this vocabulary of, well, we’re going to work behind the scenes because we’re not going to get targeted — that whole way of thinking presupposes that some universities will get targeted, and you don’t want to be one of those universities, and that’s just a losing strategy,” Stanley told the Guardian.

“I just became very worried because I didn’t see a strong enough reaction in other universities to side with Columbia,” he added.

Yale has not released a statement addressing the revocation of Columbia’s funding. Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis has told the News that he does not anticipate any changes in Yale’s free expression and protest policies. University President Maurie McInnis previously said that she is prioritizing lobbying for Yale’s interests in Washington over issuing public pronouncements.

Shore wrote that the Munk School had long attempted to recruit her and Snyder and that the couple had seriously considered the offers “for the past two years.” Shore wrote that the couple decided to take the positions after the November 2024 elections. However, a spokesperson for Snyder told Inside Higher Ed that Snyder’s decision was made before the elections, was largely personal and came amid “difficult family matters.” The spokesperson also said that he had “no desire” to leave the United States. 

Shore wrote that her and Snyder’s children were factors in the couple’s decision.

Snyder and Shore both specialize in Eastern European history and each has drawn parallels between the fascist regimes they have studied and the current Trump administration. Stanley, a philosopher, has also published books on fascism and propaganda, including the popular book “How Fascism Works.”  

In 2021, Stanley and Snyder co-taught a course at Yale titled “Mass Incarceration in the Soviet Union and the United States.” Earlier this week, Stanley and Shore joined nearly 3,000 Jewish faculty across the U.S. to sign a letter denouncing the arrest of a Columbia student protester and urging their respective institutions to resist the Trump administration’s policies targeting colleges.

“I know Jason Stanley very well, he’s been one of my most important interlocutors on political, historical and philosophical questions for the better part of a decade now,” Shore wrote to the News on Wednesday. “I am thrilled that he’ll be joining us in Toronto, but also heartbroken at what’s happened to my own country.”

Paul Franks, the chair of Yale’s philosophy department, described the news of Stanley’s departure as a shock, although he knew that Stanley had been considering leaving Yale “for quite some time.” Franks described Stanley as an irreplaceable “pioneer” in analytic philosophy and as a “rare” American philosophical public intellectual.

Angel Nwadibia ’24, who took several classes with Stanley and worked as a research assistant on his latest book on fascism, lauded Stanley’s commitment to including a diverse canon in his classes’ syllabi, and to relating his courses to relevant current events.

“He has a really neat ability to marry the tools of the discipline with the contemporary crises that we as students, as people in the world, are currently facing,” Nwadibia said.

With Shore and Snyder departing, Yale’s faculty will be short two of its most prominent scholars of Eastern Europe. Although Stanley’s academic work was not focused on the region, the philosophy professor has commented and written on the war in Ukraine and taught a course at the Kyiv School of Economics in Ukraine in the summer of 2024.

Olha Tytarenko, a Ukrainian language professor, shared that Snyder and Shore provided a crucial platform for conversations and events focused on Ukraine.

“The departure of Professors Shore and Snyder leaves behind a profound void,” Tytarenko wrote to the News. “The intellectual and moral leadership they offered in advancing public understanding of Ukrainian history, culture, and politics at Yale is, in many ways, irreplaceable.”

Andrei Kureichik, a Belarusian dissident and research scholar at the MacMillan Center, called the professors’ departure “a big loss” for Yale and American education, but urged the University community to carry forward the pro-Ukraine advocacy Snyder and Shore led on campus.

Molly Brunson, Director of the Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Program, also emphasized the couple’s “tireless” advocacy for Eastern European scholarship on campus.

When Yevhenii Monastyrskyi GRD ’23 studied European and Russian studies at Yale, Shore advised his thesis and Snyder served as his “spiritual guide,” Monastyrskyi said. He described the two professors as “generous scholars” who made time for their students.

“Professor Snyder is always good with conceptual thinking. He helps to grasp the bigger picture students are trying to pursue,” Monastyrski said. “Professor Shore is a person of ideas and language, so she really helps her students to develop the clearest but also the most beautifully written pieces.”

Asked whether she believes other professors might be encouraged to leave the United States, Shore wrote that she believes many of her colleagues will consider relocating due to the current political climate, which she deemed an “American descent into fascism.”

“I don’t feel confident that American universities will manage to mobilize to protect either their students or their faculty,” Shore said.

Franks wrote that he is not aware of other faculty in the philosophy department who are considering leaving the country for political reasons.

This semester, Shore is on leave from Yale to finish a book manuscript, though she has resided in Toronto since the beginning of the academic year. She will begin teaching at the University of Toronto in the fall as the Munk School’s chair in European intellectual history. Snyder will be the school’s inaugural chair in Modern European History. 

The University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy was founded in 2010.

Yurii Stasiuk contributed reporting.

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