Graduate School of Education student Michael J. Novielli, the only student member of the committee who did not sign the addendum, said that while he agreed with some of the points it raised, he did not feel comfortable putting his name on it.

“I wasn’t necessarily opposed to signing off on some things but the tone of the addendum seemed to express dissatisfaction with elements of the process, but I believed in the process and was satisfied with the outcome,” Novielli said.

With respect to the recommendation of the task force that HUPD incident reports remain confidential, Paley said that it would not be difficult to release the reports with names and other private information redacted.

“I think that anyone looking at it fairly and being honest with themselves knows that you can release redacted reports without compromising privacy,” Paley said. “Every municipal police force in Massachussetts does that.”

But Iuliano wrote that releasing such documents would lead to a variety of problems.

“In these circumstances, I don’t see anything gained by the release of the internal reports, but I do see many problems—including those explained in the group’s report—by the release of internal HUPD documents,” Iuliano wrote.

The report said that “the danger is too great that redacted incident reports could still reveal identifying information about victims and witnesses.”

The report also argued that relevant information from the incident reports could be released in the daily police log, which would be expanded under the group’s fourth recommendation.

HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano, who was also a member of the task force, declined to comment on the final report and the addendum.

Paley said that he was pleased with the task force’s recommendation of an expanded police log and hopes that HUPD will follow through on the recommendation.

“It’s pretty easy to pay lip service to transparency and openness, but it is an entirely different thing to actually stand by that and provide more information to the community,” Paley said. “Hopefully we will see much more comprehensive logs in the upcoming months.”

All of the task force members who were contacted agreed that the police log expansion as well as the recommendations regarding suicide statistics and the institutionalization of communication between the student press and HUPD were significant steps forward.

Iuliano wrote that the report demonstrates the committee’s desire to ensure that the student press receives as much information as possible.

“It expresses the group’s appreciation for the genuine approach the HUPD takes to the relationship with the student press and, more generally, to getting information out to the community,” Iuliano wrote.

The task force does not have any plans to reconvene or release any additional reports at this time.

—Staff writer Evan M. Vittor can be reached at evittor@fas.harvard.edu.