A North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled that Davidson College's police department can't perform police duties because of its close ties to a religious institution, which could violate the constitutional separation between church and state.
The unanimous decision is the result of an incident that occurred four years ago when campus police arrested a woman, who was not a student, off campus and charged her with a DWI, reports the Carolina Weekly. The woman pleaded guilty and later appealed, claiming that the police department is unconstitutional because the Presbyterian college has religious ties.