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Believe the Victim Campus Due Process False Allegations Investigations Title IX Trauma Informed

PR: Defense Attorneys Urged to Speak Out on H.R. 1620, Which Would Remove Impartial and Fair Investigations

PRESS RELEASE Rebecca Stewart: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org Defense Attorneys Urged to Speak Out on H.R. 1620, Which Would Remove Impartial and Fair Investigations WASHINGTON / March 15, 2021 – A bill recently introduced in Congress, H.R. 1620, would vitiate the right of defendants to an impartial and fair investigation, thereby removing a key due process right […]

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Domestic Violence False Allegations Violence Against Women Act

‘I think actually the prosecutions of women would skyrocket.’

‘I think actually the prosecutions of women would skyrocket.’ Coalition to End Domestic Violence March 12, 2021 The recently introduced Violence Against Women Act bill includes this proposed redefinition of domestic violence (H.R. 1620, Section 2): “The term ‘domestic violence’ means a pattern of behavior involving the use of physical, sexual, verbal, psychological, economic, or […]

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Campus Sexual Assault Sexual Harassment Title IX

115 Lawmakers Call for Return to Failed Campus Policy

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org 115 Lawmakers Call for Return to Failed Campus Policy WASHINGTON / March 8, 2021 – SAVE is challenging a Congressional letter that calls on the Department of Education to replace the current Title IX regulation, which took effect last year, with “key portions” of its 2011 […]

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Investigations Wrongful Convictions

Police Investigative Misconduct Railroaded an Innocent Catholic Priest

Police Investigative Misconduct Railroaded an Innocent Catholic Priest Ryan MacDonald February 20, 2021 In September, 1988, Keene, New Hampshire sex crimes detective James F. McLaughlin received a letter from Ms. Sylvia Gale, a New Hampshire child protection social worker. Ms. Gale’s letter reported third-hand information that Catholic priest, Gordon J. MacRae, had once been a […]

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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 […]