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Campus Sexual Assault Trauma Informed

PR: Impartial and Fair Investigations at Risk in Four States Eyeing ‘Trauma-Informed’ Methods

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org Impartial and Fair Investigations at Risk in Four States Eyeing ‘Trauma-Informed’ Methods WASHINGTON / March 25, 2020 – Proposed legislation in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, California, and Hawaii would require universities to use controversial “trauma-informed” methods for investigations of allegations of campus sexual assault. Investigative reporter Emily

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Title IX

National Association of Scholars. Title IX Tool Kit

https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/title-ix-toolkit National Association of Scholars. Title IX Tool Kit March 19, 2020 Collegiality or Harrassment? Two Sides of the PC Coin What is Title IX? Why is Title IX controversial? Why should Title IX concern NAS members? Where does Title IX stand now? What is Title IX? Title IX refers to the 1972 Educational Amendments

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Title IX

Tenth Circuit: There’s nothing we can do about accused student’s ‘railroading’

https://www.thefire.org/tenth-circuit-theres-nothing-we-can-do-about-accused-students-railroading/ Tenth Circuit: There’s nothing we can do about accused student’s ‘railroading’ by Samantha Harris March 18, 2020 An appellate court decision last week illustrates the uphill battle that often faces students who seek relief from unfair campus disciplinary proceedings in court — but several other recent decisions suggest a potential path forward for these students

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Campus False Allegations Title IX

The Accusations Were Lies. But Could We Prove It?

By Sarah Viren March 18, 2020 We were at a friend’s doctoral graduation party on a Friday night at the end of March. I had a glass of wine in one hand and our toddler on my hip when Marta found me. “I got a really weird email,” she said. The moon hung full over our

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False Allegations

False Allegations Harm True Victims

SAVE March 20, 2020 False allegations have become a major barrier to victims of sexual assault getting the help they need. As trivial and false claims clog the system and consume scarce resources: Victims are less likely to report the crime because they worry they won’t be believed Police are less likely to investigate Jurors

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Campus Sexual Assault Title IX

OCR Is About to Rock Our Worlds

By Brett A. Sokolow January 15, 2020 ATIXA, the association of Title IX administrators I serve as president, anticipates publication of the final Title IX regulations in the Federal Register within the coming weeks. The federal government last issued Title IX regulations in 1975, so this is somewhat unprecedented. The proposed changes are far more sweeping than the 2011 Dear Colleague

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Campus Sexual Assault

Right to counsel, right to confrontation among due process rights afforded to Arizona students under 2018 legislation

By Joe Cohn February 26, 2020 In 2018, Arizona enacted HB 2563 (now Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 15-1866), a bill on campus free speech that FIRE criticized for missing the mark in some key respects. FIRE’s analysis of the bill focused exclusively on the aspects of the legislation that affected students’ free speech rights. We recently revisited the bill’s language and found that

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Campus Department of Education Scholarships Title IX Equity Project

PR: The 85 Worst Universities in the Nation Offering Scholarships that Discriminate on the Basis of Sex

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org The 85 Worst Universities in the Nation Offering Scholarships that Discriminate on the Basis of Sex WASHINGTON / March 16, 2020 – The Title IX Equity Project today is releasing a list of 85 colleges and universities in the nation with severe violations of the federal

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Sexual Assault

The Title IX Travesty

New Civil Liberties Alliance March 11, 2020 | Lunch & Law Speaker Series NCLA Senior Litigation Counsel Harriet Hageman hosts Lunch & Law with Jennifer Braceras, the Director of the Independent Women’s Forum Law Center, Hanna Stotland, an admissions consultant, and Caleb Kruckenberg, NCLA Litigation Counsel who is handling Vengalattore v. Cornell University and the U.S. Department of

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Sexual Assault Start By Believing Victim-Centered Investigations

Too Little, Too Late: Review of EVAWI’s Updated Report on ‘Effective Report Writing’

Center for Prosecutor Integrity March 13, 2020 In 2006, End Violence Against Women, Inc. (EVAWI) published a report titled, “Effective Report Writing: Using the Language of Non-Consensual Sex.” This report was deeply concerning, given its specific guidance that investigators begin their probe with an “initial presumption” of guilt for the prime suspect. Noting numerous other concerns