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Prosecutorial Misconduct

Judge Calls for DOJ Probe of Prosecutorial Misconduct

Judge Calls for DOJ Probe of Prosecutorial Misconduct in Iran Sanctions Case The order followed a blistering opinion that took to task the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office for making “countless” belated disclosures. By Tom McParland | February 17, 2021 at 05:46 PM A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday called on the Justice Department’s Office of […]

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Campus Title IX Title IX Equity Project

Budget Cuts Urged for Colleges that Persist in Discriminating on the Basis of Sex

PRESS RELEASE Rebecca Stewart: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org Budget Cuts Urged for Colleges that Persist in Discriminating on the Basis of Sex WASHINGTON / February 18, 2021 – The federal Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced that it currently has [number] open investigations of [name of state] universities for allegedly discriminating against male students (1). […]

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Investigations Start By Believing

Has EVAWI Been Moderating or Covering its Tracks?

Has EVAWI Been Moderating or Covering its Tracks? By James Baresel February 16, 2021 In 2020 End Violence Against Women International (EVAWI) issued a revised version of its instruction manual Effective Report Writing: Using the Language of Non-Consensual Sex, an older edition of which had been in use since 2006. Both versions are based in a […]

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Campus Department of Education Department of Justice Discrimination Title IX

BOLD program under investigation for Title IX complaint

By Ashley Stalnecker — Senior Writer, The Ithacan Published: February 10, 2021 The U.S. Office for Civil Rights has opened an investigation against Ithaca College’s BOLD Women’s Leadership Network after receiving a complaint of a Title IX violation by a University of Michigan professor. Mark Perry, professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan, […]

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Law & Justice Sexual Harassment

Virginia Senate blocks strange harassment legislation, but it might still pass

By Liam Bissainthe February 9, 2021 The Virginia state senate blocked a bill that could potentially change the definition of “sexual harassment.” It would also hold even small employers liable for comments defined as either “workplace harassment” or “sexual harassment.” Employers would held liable even for conduct that occurs “outside of the workplace,” and even […]

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Investigations

“For 1989, that was standard practice for the N.Y.P.D., but now we know better.”

3 Detectives Obtained a False Murder Confession. Was It One of Dozens? Huwe Burton was wrongly convicted because of deceptive interrogation techniques. How many more cases were “solved” the same way? For Huwe Burton, the breaking point came late on the night of Jan. 5, 1989, as he sat with detectives in a cramped, windowless […]

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Sexual Harassment

HB 2155 Will Multiply Frivolous ‘Harassment’ Lawsuits, Harm Virginia Businesses Recovering from COVID Pandemic

PRESS RELEASE Rebecca Stewart: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org HB 2155 Will Multiply Frivolous ‘Harassment’ Lawsuits, Harm Virginia Businesses Recovering from COVID Pandemic WASHINGTON / February 16, 2021 – SAVE is calling on Virginia lawmakers to oppose HB 2155, which dramatically expands the definition of “workplace harassment” to the point that almost any employee experiencing any job-related […]

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Campus Title IX Title IX Equity Project

233 Investigations of Colleges for Sex-Discriminatory Programs and Scholarships

PRESS RELEASE Rebecca Stewart: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org 233 Investigations of Colleges for Sex-Discriminatory Programs and Scholarships WASHINGTON / February 15, 2021 – The federal Office for Civil Rights has announced that it currently has 233 open investigations of programs and scholarships that allegedly discriminate against male students (1). The sex-bias complaints have been submitted by […]

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Trauma Informed Victim-Centered Investigations

PR: Defense Attorneys Should Tell Police Chiefs to Halt Program that Will Bias Investigations, Worsen Wrongful Convictions, and Target Black Men

PRESS RELEASE Rebecca Stewart: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org Defense Attorneys Should Tell Police Chiefs to Halt Program that Will Bias Investigations, Worsen Wrongful Convictions, and Target Black Men WASHINGTON / February 12, 2021 – SAVE is today calling on defense attorneys to urge the International Association of Chiefs of Police to promptly suspend a proposed program […]

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Campus Discrimination Title IX

Countering Sex Discrimination at UCF

David Acevedo, February 08, 2021 Adam Kissel, senior fellow at the Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy and visiting scholar at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, has filed a complaint with the Atlanta Office of the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR), alleging that the University of Central Florida (UCF) is in ongoing […]