UI aims to release prof's records within 2 weeks

The University of Idaho aims to release within two weeks the personnel records of a professor who resigned
three days before police say he gunned down a graduate student he
had dated and then committed suicide.

UI President Duane Nellis announced the timeline Friday in an
editorial sent to Idaho media outlets.

A northern Idaho judge ordered the personnel records of Ernesto
Bustamante released during a hearing Monday. Police say Bustamante shot 22-year-old Katy Benoit nearly a dozen times outside her Moscow home in late August and then turned a gun on himself.

The university and several media outlets petitioned the court to
rule Bustamante's records were a matter of public record.

An attorney for the school has said the records include emails
that number ``in the tens of thousands.''


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