Among the thousands of student profiles on Facebook.com is that of James Williams.

Williams lists his relationship status (single), favorite music (smooth R&B, ballads), interests (movies, video games, sports, martial arts, reading), and favorite TV shows (Battle Star Galactica, Scare Tactics, America’s Most Wanted).

He’s not a student at Eastern, but rather an officer with the University Police Department.

Eight other officers also have Facebook profiles, but theirs don’t have the same amount of detail included in Williams’s profile.

But it’s the students who take the cake.

It’s easy to find student profiles that list cell phone numbers, birth dates, full addresses and class schedules open to everyone else on campus with a Facebook profile.

“If you’re looking for a good stalking, that’s a good way to do it,” Mitchell said. “It’s getting out of control.”

Mitchell has his own Facebook account, as well as Police Chief Adam Due.

Due said UPD sometimes uses Facebook to look into complaints with harassments or investigations.

The police don’t use the site to hunt down parties or find incriminating photos.

“We’ll find out where those are anyway,” Due said.

If they hear tips from other people, UPD will check it out, Due said.

He referred another schools’ philosophy: “Yes, we do respect your privacy, but this is public information” once it’s posted on the Internet.

The University Police Department at Western Illinois University in Macomb doesn’t check Facebook, said Corporal Todd Louden.

Sgt. Derek Ronnfeldt of the Illinois State University Police said nobody checks there either.

But at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Facebook has been a tool on a number of occasions.

Assistant Chief Jeff Christensen said the site has been used for follow-up investigations.

Some women on campus once brought a man back to their room. In the morning their iPods were missing, Christensen said.

The man was identified quickly by using Facebook.

Christensen said information on Facebook is public, and that if he were a student, he would be more worried about future employers looking at profiles.

“It’s amazing what people post on there,” he said.