ANN ARBOR -- The University of Michigan's Central Student Government has completed its investigation into how the school handles its new student sexual misconduct policy.

On Sunday, the CSG released the findings of its investigation, which was led by a task force formed in February after news broke that former Michigan kicker Brendan Gibbons was expelled in December for a violation of the school's sexual misconduct policy in 2009.

The student-run task force, which produced a 54-page report, examined the school's Office of Conflict Resolution's "implementation of the University of Michigan Policy on Sexual Misconduct by Students, effective August 19, 2013, and the expulsion of Brendan Gibbons from the University of Michigan."

Student body president Michael Proppe estimated that the most alarming finding throughout this investigation was that Michigan repeatedly failed to meet a recommended 60-day period of time between sexual misconduct complaints and actual university investigations.

Basically because staffing wasn't strong enough.

"The university was regularly missing its 60-day deadline to investigate sexual misconduct," Proppe said Sunday night. "The main reason, at least initially when the moved to the new policy, was that the university didn't have the bandwidth to handle all these investigations. They took about a year to hire a second investigator to look into this.

"So that was probably the most surprising and most concerning finding, that the delay in the Gibbons case was really not an exception but kind of the norm with these investigations."

When it came to Michigan's Office of Institutional Equity and the Office of Student Conflict Resolution, the CSG found that "either the (OIE or OSCR) failed to consistently communicate with the Athletic Department, the Athletic Department failed to consistently communicate with its coaches regarding ongoing student athlete disciplinary matters, or Brady Hoke knowingly issued false statements in December 2013, concerning the status of Gibbons."

Gibbons did not travel with the football team to the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl. When the team arrived in Arizona on Dec. 23, Hoke told a group of reporters that Gibbons was not making the trip due to a "family matter."

The Michigan Daily reported this winter that Gibbons was notified of his expulsion on Dec. 19, and the expulsion became official on Dec. 20.

Per the CSG's report, the task force claimed that athletic department officials did not believe the OIE or OSCR failed to notify the department "when a student athlete was accused of sexual misconduct." As a result of that finding, the task force concluded that "Brady Hoke knowingly issued false statements in December 2013 concerning the status of Gibbons."

Proppe said the task force's report has strong evidence to suggest that communication between the athletic department -- which includes head coaches -- and both the OIE and the OSCR has been strong.

He said that the report's findings suggest Hoke was aware of the Gibbons investigation when it began in August, he was aware when the OSCR found Gibbons to be in violation of this policy in November and he was aware that Gibbons had been expelled, officially, on Dec. 20.

Hoke, citing student federal privacy laws, has declined to comment specifically on this investigation numerous times.

"I think a lot of people were guessing at that, but we've got pretty solid evidence that this is the case," Proppe said. "He would have been aware when it started, would have been aware when he was found responsible and would've been aware when he was separated (from the university)."

University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald offered an official comment on the student report.

"We appreciate that Central Student Government takes the issue of sexual misconduct seriously, as do we," he wrote. "We hope the CSG's focus on these issues will lead to greater awareness of the student sexual misconduct policy and even more survivors coming forward."

The task force also noted that it did not find any evidence of athletic department officials influencing the "timing of the OIE's findings or the OSCR's sanctions."

Additionally, the task force found that the school did not properly explain the four-year delay between Gibbons' alleged misconduct and the actual expulsion itself.

Gibbons was arrested in November 2009 during a police investigation into a sexaul assault complaint. He was never charged in the case, and the case is now listed as closed.

Michigan's internal disciplinary system is different than the criminal justice system.

Michigan introduced a new sexual misconduct policy that went into place on an interim basis in 2011 before becoming permanent in August of 2013. Under the new policy, the complaintant no longer guides the process of sexual misconduct investigations, and anyone with knowledge of a situation can report a complaint.

The CSG also found that the university "failed to investigate (Gibbons') alleged sexual misconduct within the sixty-day period specified in the Sexual Misconduct Policy."

Michigan has declined to release specific information about this case to the media, citing federal student privacy laws.

The CSG's task force did not work in concert with officials from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, which will be on campus this week to launch its own investigation into the university's sexual misconduct policy.