Academic Integrity discipline question

Please excuse any crossposting to education groups...

I am on the graduate student committee regarding academic integrity at
my university. I'm a second year MS student in Biomedical Informatics.
I have been tasked with trying to determine what kind of disciplines
are common as a result of academic dishonesty.

My university is primarily a medical school, and their policies are
pretty vague - basically it is up to the instructor, and the issue is
then taken before the dean. However my department (Biomedical
Informatics) is a much more technically literate group of students,
and (I believe) probably copes with more issues of plagurism based on
the information we need and use.

At present we don't have a consistant policy or examples for how
modern academic dishonesty is handled. I would greatly appreciate any
examples (even rumor really) of disciplinary action and how it related
to the "crime". Was it too strict, not strict enough? What was the
time frame of the action, if it was non terminating? What are the new
issues on the table in this era of Google?

Thanks very much in advance

Nick Anderson