The cancellation of the contracts comes after a security officer was caught on video faking a disability.

Spending records show U-M spent more than $851,000 on private security guards last summer.

The University of Michigan is terminating all contracts with outside firms to provide plainclothes security officers on campus.

Interim President Domenico Grasso announced the decision in a note to the campus community Sunday, just days after media reports of Gaza War protesters being tailed.

The London-based Guardian reported last week that in at least one case caught on video, a plainclothes security officer appeared to fake a disability by pretend he was hearing-impaired when he was confronted by a protester.

"We recently learned that an employee of one of our security contractors has a

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