Governor Walker says UW requested deletion of sexual assault report

MADISON (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker's spokeswoman says the University of Wisconsin System requested that it no longer have to report allegations of sexual assaults to the state since it was already required to do so under federal law.

Walker's budget deletes a required annual state report from every UW campus about allegations of sexual assaults.

Walker spokeswoman Laurel Patrick said Friday that UW requested the deletion as part of the de-coupling of the university from state laws and oversight.

UW System spokesman Alex Hummel says the change would allow the university to focus on the federal report. He says the requirements being proposed for removal were largely duplicative of what's reported under federal law, which Hummel says UW is "deeply committed to."