"The supervisor calls the chief, who is Joe Timmons and we wind up letting the team player go," he said.
Those responses came from Joe Timmons, Head of Campus Security, the man officers claim shows preferential treatment toward athletes.Īnother former security officer, who only agreed to speak with us over the phone, says the problem is an internal one. "Having a list of athletes that should or should not be towed is a completely different story." "Just having a list of vehicles that need towed is standard, we should have that," the former security officer said. TU says they ticket and tow every student the same, sports or no sports. They said there is no way to tell if a student is involved in athletics.Ģ Works for You also asked how many tickets have been dismissed over the past year and how may of those dismissed tickets belonged to athletes. Officials said they don't track that information. Our investigation revealed in 2017, there were 148 vehicles impounded.Ģ Works for You asked if there is a way to tell what students have received parking tickets. It has a "tow off" column with a "yes" next to 20 players names. One of the lists 2 Works for You obtained was compiled in the 2012-2013 school year. "We generally weren't allowed to tow an athlete even if they had a ton of violations," the former security officer said. "In most cases, you were told not to tow a vehicle or write a ticket.," he said.įrom the lists provided to 2 Works for You, some athletes had 22 citations and three tows, 24 citations and four tows and 15 citations and one tow. However, the former security officer disagrees with the universities explanation.
After a tow warning has been issued, those students are moved to the "tow off" list, which means their vehicle could be towed at any time. They sent us an explanation of the lists we showed them, saying once a student receives five or more citations during one academic year, they are deemed a habitual offender.Īfter that, any subsequent citations land students on the "tow warning" list, which means they are subject to having their vehicle towed. "I think athletes might get towed more than anybody else does because they're always parking in bad places for practice times," TU softball player Rylie Spell said.Ģ Works for You reached out to the university. "In some cases you may be in the process of towing an athlete and in some cases they would walk out and had you a phone with the director of security on the other end of the phone," the former security guard said. "They call in the tag or the permit numbers and that's checked by the dispatcher and the tow-off list and the football list." "The officer doesn't have this list in the field," he said. The former security guard, who doesn't want to show his face, provided documents he says shows that some athletes, including football players, are not to be cited for parking violations or be towed. "It was a spoke policy that you don't take any action against any athlete," the former officer said. "Everyday was kind of it's own animal," a former TU security officer said.Ī former campus security officer who worked for the university for more than seven years said administrators are involved in a parking ticket fixing scandal involving some of the school's top athletic programs. TULSA - 2 Works for You looked into allegations that some University of Tulsa athletes are receiving preferential treatment.
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