CONWAY, S.C. (WBTW) — Friday marked one month since Coastal Carolina University police arrested a now-former teaching associate on an assault-and-battery charge, and News13 is still waiting for school officials to release a copy of the police report.
News13 submitted an online Freedom of Information Act request with CCU on June 26 asking for the police report about the arrest of Mark Singleton , who also serves as the board chairman of Shoreline Behavioral Health Services in Conway.
The university’s FOIA office acknowledged in a July 11 email that it had received the request and later said that an invoice would be sent out on or before Aug. 10. The email also stated that the documents would be released once any fees, if any, were paid.
It’s not the first time CCU has taken more than a month to provide a police report. On April 20, News13 asked for a police report about an incident that happened a day earlier at a baseball game on campus involving an officer and a man who was allegedly drunk. The report was not sent to News13 until June 4.