This day, which should have been one of celebration, is heartbreakingly tragic, ... I can't imagine the grief that her family is suffering and express my deepest sympathy to them.

I've said from Day One that we would consider everything up to and including dismissal.

Our department's lawyers have certainly studied this and are prepared to go forward and defend the existing policy, ... To date, nobody has presented anything that's caused us to believe that we should abandon our current policy.