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Believe the Victim Trauma Informed

Highlights of New Special Report on the Neurobiology of Trauma

Center for Prosecutor Integrity September 1, 2019 Recently the Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA) published a Position Paper on “Trauma-Informed Training and Neurobiology of Trauma” that sharply criticizes the assumptions, precepts, and methods of trauma-informed proponents. Now, the Center for Prosecutor Integrity has published a separate report that takes a deep-dive into the science

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Campus Trauma Informed Violence Against Women Act

Highlights from the ATIXA Position Statement on Trauma-Informed Methods

SAVE August 23, 2019 On August 22, the Association of Title IX Administrators – ATIXA – issued a Position Statement on Trauma-Informed Training and the Neurobiology of Trauma that exposes the many fallacies of “trauma-informed” concepts and methods: https://cdn.atixa.org/website-media/atixa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/20123741/2019-ATIXA-Trauma-Position-Statement-Final-Version.pdf The Statement begins by quoting a claim that is often cited in trauma-informed training materials: “Trauma

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Scholarships Title IX Equity Project

Colleges and Universities are Failing to Meet Their Title IX Obligations to Male Students

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org Colleges and Universities are Failing to Meet Their Title IX Obligations to Male Students WASHINGTON / August 20, 2019 – A review of scholarships at over 200 colleges and universities in 36 states reveals widespread discriminatory practices in the provision of sex-specific scholarships for male students

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Sex Without A Notarized Document Of Consent Is Teetering On Becoming A Thing Of The Past

http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2019/08/sex-without-a-n.html August 7, 2019 Sex Without A Notarized Document Of Consent Is Teetering On Becoming A Thing Of The Past Of course, even a notarized document doesn’t protect you, as the person you’re having sex with could say they withdrew consent mid-act, and you don’t have proof that you had consent to continue. In short

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Investigations

CORRUPT COPS: Planted Evidence, Coerced Confessions, and now, ‘Conviction-Oriented’ Investigations

Center for Prosecutor Integrity August 7, 2019 Police misconduct is a long-standing problem in our criminal justice system. Examples include fabrication of evidence, high-pressure interrogations, bribery, and more. Now there’s a new way to corrupt the process: Conviction-oriented investigations. AND IT’S BEING ACTIVELY PROMOTED BY THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Ethics codes require investigators

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Former Va. governor Doug Wilder contests finding of sexual harassment investigation

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/former-va-governor-doug-wilder-contests-finding-of-sexual-harassment-investigation/2019/07/23/9bd87cb2-ad5f-11e9-bc5c-e73b603e7f38_story.html?utm_term=.b281ddd0cefe Former Va. governor Doug Wilder contests finding of sexual harassment investigation Former Virginia governor L. Douglas Wilder, outside the capitol in Richmond in 2015. (Timothy C. Wright for The Washington Post) By Jenna Portnoy July 23 Former Virginia governor L. Douglas Wilder has formally contested the finding of an investigator hired by Virginia Commonwealth University

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Restraining Order

Return to Sanity? Nebraska Court of Appeals Reins in Restraining Order Abuse

SAVE July 30, 2019 It’s no secret that restraining orders are often issued with little or no evidence of abuse. The SAVE Special Report, The Use and Abuse of Domestic Restraining Orders, documents numerous examples of such frivolous orders: • Elaine Epstein, former president of the Massachusetts Bar Association, admitted, “Everyone knows that restraining orders

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False Allegations Start By Believing Wrongful Convictions

Brian Banks Saga Reveals the Flaws of a ‘Start By Believing’ Criminal Justice System

Renee Jolly July 30, 2019 What do you get when you have a false accusation, a start-by-believing investigative process, a broken and corrupt judicial system, and a lost dream to play in the NFL? You get Brian Banks, The movie and The man. You also get a story of thousands of others who have experienced

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Domestic Violence

PR: Recent Incidents Reveal Growing Problem of Domestic Violence among Females

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org Recent Incidents Reveal Growing Problem of Domestic Violence among Females WASHINGTON / July 24, 2019 – Recent incidents highlight the growing problem of domestic violence and sexual assault instigated by females. Two of the incidents, reported last week, involve female professional basketball players. On July 16

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#MeToo Violence Against Women Act

How the #MeToo Movement is Trying to Weaponize the Violence Against Women Act

Coalition to End Domestic Violence Not too long ago, the Violence Against Women Act enjoyed strong bipartisan support. Every five years, senators Joe Biden of Delaware and Orrin Hatch of Utah collaborated in a fine display of bipartisan unity to urge their fellow lawmakers to reauthorize VAWA. That abruptly changed on February 12, 2013, when