The Georgetown University Student Association passed a resolution supporting the recently-launched student-run website StopCrimeNotParties.com on Sunday afternoon.

The bill, introduced by Speaker Adam Mortillaro (COL ’12) and Senator Colton Malkerson (COL ’13), both of whom are associated with the site, gives GUSA’s support to the efforts of the new site.

StopCrimeNotParties.com encourages students to report inappropriate behavior by MPD, SNAP, DPS, or neighbors toward students.

Full text of the resolution:

WHEREAS, the District of Columbia City Council, in conjunction with the Metropolitan Police Department, has recently enacted a new noise ordinance, of which that many in the Georgetown University have expressed concern; and,

WHEREAS, a group of students has created the “Stop Crimes not Parties” movement, involving an aggressive public relations campaign, directed at enhancing the position of college students in the District with regards to the new regulation; and

WHEREAS, the group’s website, StopCrimeNotParties.com, aims to educate students and provide them with an opportunity to report authority malfeasance with regard to the new noise law.

THE GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SENATE,

DOES hereby support and endorse the efforts of this new movement, and encourage all students to visit the website and obtain a yard sign to show support for the Georgetown student body.

A group of Georgetown students launched stopcrimenotparties.com on Sunday, giving students the opportunity to report encounters with local residents, the Metropolitan Police Department, the Department of Public Safety, and the Student Neighbor Assistance Program.

The website’s goal? To document any instances of “questionable behavior” observed by students during those encounters — especially in the wake of an amended disorderly conduct law that outlaws any loud noise between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. that could be considered “likely to disturb one or more persons in their residence.”

Although no students have been arrested under the law since it took effect last month, it inspired the site’s launch.

“Obviously the new noise law means that things are changing a bit,” Adam Mortillaro (COL ’12), one of the founders of the site, said. “We just want to keep an eye on this as the ordinance moves forward.”

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D.C. Student Alliance, an advocacy group made up of elected student leaders at universities in the District, recently sent an open letter to city officials asking for a clarification of the vague new amendments to the District’s noise law.

Mayor Vince Gray’s office was the first to respond to the letter. DCSA has not yet heard from Council Chairman Kwame Brown, Police Chief Cathy Lanier, or Acting Attorney General Irvin Nathan.

Gray’s office expressed interest in meeting with the signatories of the letter to discuss the recent changes.

Georgetown University Student Association Senate Speaker Adam Mortillaro (COL ’12) signed the letter on behalf of GUSA and the Georgetown student body.

Read the letter from DCSA to city officials after the jump.
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