False Allegations on Campus
UPDATE: On September 22, 2017, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos rescinded the controversial 2011 Dear Colleague Letter on sexual violence. You can read the announcement HERE.
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Tell Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to safeguard civil liberties and remove its unlawful Sexual Assault Directive: arne.duncan@ed.gov
One year ago SAVE launched a campaign for the Department of Education (DED) to rescind its unlawful Sexual Assault Directive. Since then, our campaign has lept forward:
- The American Association of University Professors and 12 other organizations have called for the policy’s removal.
- To date, over 200 editorials have been written opposing the mandate.
The harmful effects of the DED Sexual Assault Directive have already been documented — see: On College Campuses, Civil Liberties Took a Beating.
Unfortunately, the DED policy is part of a broader trend to give free rein to an “authoritarian impulse,” using rape laws as a vehicle to revamp basic tenets of our criminal justice system: How Rape Laws Remove the Presumption of Innocence.
For more details, visit Accusing U. For more information on the problem of false allegations of sexual assault, visit SAVE’s web page.