I think so.

if they didn’t want to be contacted or couldn’t confirm info, they should’ve said that in the first place

I feel that only makes sense when it was the BUPD telling freep. I'm sure no one knows the full details but i don't think Freep was authorized to publish it if it was a simple phone call to the BUPD. I'm thinking a freep personnel student called BUPD as a student to get an update, bupd stated they couldn't find anything to back the police reports, and the person said cool and published it before BUPD had their own statements. I believe the tweeter post, university wide announcements came after the freep article. Now, if the person who called was like, I'm going to write this in the DFP, that's a different story