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Violence Against Women Act: Eating Its Own Tail?

Violence Against Women Act: Eating Its Own Tail? Coalition to End Domestic Violence November 6, 2019 On April 4 the House of Representatives passed its version of the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization – H.R. 1585 – and forwarded the bill to the Senate for consideration. Seven months later, no Senate bill has been introduced

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Campus Press Release

PR: 25 Worst Colleges for Campus Due Process

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org 25 Worst Colleges for Campus Due Process WASHINGTON / November 7, 2019 – Today SAVE, a leading campus due process organization, is releasing a list of the 25 worst colleges and university for campus fairness and due process. The colleges were selected based on a detailed

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Campus Investigations Title IX

PR: To Minimize Liability Threat, SAVE Urges Immediate Discontinuation of Trauma-Informed Investigations

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org To Minimize Liability Threat, SAVE Urges Immediate Discontinuation of Trauma-Informed Investigations WASHINGTON / November 4, 2019 – A scientific article published last week has strongly criticized the use of “trauma-informed’ investigations on college campuses. Trauma-informed methods attribute inconsistencies and contradictions in a complainant’s statements to the

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Title IX

Training for Title IX investigators lacks tested, effective techniques

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191028093945.htm?cid=db&source=ams&sourceId=3913353 Training for Title IX investigators lacks tested, effective techniques Date: October 28, 2019 Source: Iowa State University Summary: Interviews are the central component of any Title IX investigation, but new research finds the techniques investigators are using may not be the most effective. Researchers evaluated the available training programs for investigators and identified techniques

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Investigations Trauma Informed Victim-Centered Investigations Violence Against Women Act

VAWA Fresh Start: ‘Trauma-Informed’ Provisions in VAWA are Junk Science

Coalition to End Domestic Violence October 29, 2019 The House version of the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization – H.R. 1585 – features a Demonstration Program on Trauma-Informed Training for Law Enforcement. Section 206 states: The Attorney General shall award grants on a competitive basis to eligible entities to carry out the demonstration program under

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Title IX

NAS Commends President Trump’s Executive Orders: No More Law by Dear Colleague Letter

https://nas.org/blogs/statement/nas-commends-president-trumps-executive-orders-no-more-law-by-dear-colleague-letter NAS Commends President Trump’s Executive Orders: No More Law by Dear Colleague Letter NAS October 22, 2019 Last week President Trump signed two Executive Orders that significantly curb our current rule by bureaucracy – now also known as the Administrative State. The National Association of Scholars commends President Trump for these orders, “Promoting the

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Violence Against Women Act

The Long March to Turn Every American into a Victim of Domestic ‘Violence’

Coalition to End Domestic Violence October 22, 2019 When the Violence Against Women Act was first passed in 1994, pretty much everybody agreed with the dictionary definition of violence: a “behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.” Accordingly, the original version of VAWA defined domestic violence (DV) as “felony

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Title IX

Trauma-Informed Dispute

Trauma-Informed Dispute Jeremy Bauer-Wolf September 17, 2019 Investigators of campus sexual assaults usually avoid bluntly asking victims to recall their attacks in vivid detail. This “trauma-informed” approach is used widely in investigations and is based on the belief that officials should not subject rape survivors to reliving such disturbing experiences without an empathetic ear

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Trauma Informed

Trauma and the Daubert Standard

Trauma and the Daubert Standard Michael Thad Allen October 10, 2019 Plaintiffs claiming they were wrongly expelled for false allegations of sexual misconduct in colleges and universities have repeatedly challenged so-called “trauma informed” interview techniques. Their challenges most often fail: three times in the Federal District Court of Colorado and once each in the Southern

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Violence Against Women Act

Clery Act Prohibits Unilateral Changes To Sexual Violence Disciplinary Results

Clery Act Prohibits Unilateral Changes To Sexual Violence Disciplinary Results S. Daniel Carter One of the fundamental tenets of the 2013 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) amendments to the Jeanne Clery Act is that participants in “dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking” disciplinary proceedings should never be surprised that an action is being taken by