KNOXVILLE (WATE) – After a review of the longstanding practice of courtesy notifications to University of Tennessee administration about incidents involving UT students, the Knoxville Police Department says “no investigations were compromised or improper information provided,” but they are discontinuing the practice.

The Knox County district attorney’s office said it opposes notifying anyone before arrests are made in an investigation after phone records were released showing Knoxville police called Tennessee football coach Butch Jones during a rape investigation involving former Volunteers A.J. Johnson and Michael Williams.

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Last week, Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero and Knoxville Police Chief David Rausch reviewed the policy in consultation with the city’s law department. Rausch said Friday his department will only notify the UT Police Department from now on and issued a statement on the matter:

After reviewing our longstanding practice of courtesy notifications to the University of Tennessee administration of incidents involving UT students, it is clear that no investigations were compromised or improper information provided. But in the interest of transparency and to alleviate any appearance of conflict of interest, we have changed the previous practice, to ensure that investigators focus without hindrance on finding the facts and bringing justice to victims of crime. Going forward, in any incident involving a student at the University, KPD will make formal notification only to UT law enforcement, as required by state law and as part of our ongoing interdepartmental cooperation.

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Phone records show Jones received calls from Rausch and Sam Brown of the Knoxville Police Department on November 16, 2014.

Johnson and Williams were suspended from the team November 17, 2014. They were indicted February 2015 and have separate trial dates this summer.