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Baylor doesn't have to release police sexual assault records

The Texas attorney general's office is not requiring Baylor to release police records relating to sexual assaults committed by two former football players.

The records were requested by both the Associated Press and ESPN's Outside the Lines. According to the state, the release of the records would violate the privacy of the victims in the assaults.

From the AP:

In arguing that the records should remain private, Wheelus says that the party requesting the information knows the names of the victims, so releasing the records would result in making public "highly intimate or embarrassing details."

The AG's office, headed by Attorney General and Baylor graduate Ken Paxton, declined further comment on the opinion.

The records requests were related to the cases involving Tevin Elliott and Sam Ukwuachu. Three women who said they were assaulted by Elliott alleged the school ignored their pleas for action. The women were featured in an ESPN Outside the Lines piece earlier in February that kept their identities private.

Elliott is currently serving 20 years in prison after he was convicted of two counts of sexual assault in 2014 for a 2012 incident at a party.

Ukwuachu was sentenced to six months in jail over the summer after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a former Baylor soccer player. According to the AP, a candlelight vigil outside the home of Baylor's president to protest the way the school has handled the sexual assault cases drew 100 people.

Baylor, a private university, is subject to state open records laws after laws changed in 2015 that made the records of campus police open to be requested.

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Nick Bromberg is the assistant editor of Dr. Saturday on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at nickbromberg@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter!