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The press release states that the new measures will take effect this summer.

These new measures follow the earlier announcement that Esi Codjoe, a renowned Toronto-based lawyer who previously served as the former vice chair at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, had been hired to investigate the incident.

Codjoe has been mandated not only with investigating whether university policies were implemented properly during the June 12 incident, but also to review the policies themselves to ensure they “are up to date and void of negative systemic impacts on any of our community members who belong to historically disadvantaged groups and specifically racialized community members.”

This includes the university’s Policy 33, which has come into spotlight following the June 12 incident. Section 8 of that policy states that the school’s security personnel are allowed to ask for identification from people on the campus.

Jamal Boyce tweeted about the June 12 incident the following day, sharing a video in which campus security is heard demanding that he produce identification or leave campus after he was accused of doing a skateboarding trick while on his way to class.

“After letting them know that I didn’t have my wallet on me and trying to walk away, they followed me, hit my phone to the ground as I tried to record, grabbed me and put me in handcuffs,” he said.

“I was forced to sit on the busiest campus road in handcuffs for two hours,” he added, calling the experience “humiliating” and adding, “uOttawa security used their authority to harass and demean me.”

Boyce was then put in the back of a police cruiser for between five and 10 minutes.

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