EAST LANSING — Michigan State University officials announced Friday they’ll start releasing later this month thousands of documents they withheld for years related to the investigation of serial predator Larry Nassar.
Interim President Teresa Woodruff shared the timeline during Friday’s board of trustees meeting, and MSU Vice President of Communications Emily Guerrant confirmed that the timeline was decided during a Jan. 24 meeting between representatives from the MSU General Counsel and Michigan Attorney General’s offices.
It hasn’t been clear what exactly is going to be released, and redactions are expected. But the state attorney general lawyers will receive documents they’ve been pursuing since around the start of 2018, when Nassar received an effective life sentence.
Valerie Von Frank, mother of one of the survivors of Nassar and founder of Parents Of Sister Survivors Engage, POSSE, said at Friday’s meeting that the Sister Survivors had not been told that the university would be announcing the timeline of the documents’ release. POSSE has been calling for more transparency regarding the Nassar investigation.