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Campus Press Release Sexual Assault

PR: 23 Cornell Law Profs Support Suspended Student in Sexual Assault Appeal

Telephone: 301-801-0608 Email: info@saveservices.org 23 Cornell Law Profs Support Suspended Student in Sexual Assault Appeal WASHINGTON / April 3, 2018 – Twenty-three Cornell Law School professors have requested to file an Amicus Brief in support of a student who was accused of campus sexual assault and later suspended. The Cornell statement is the fourth statement from [...]
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Campus Due Process Sexual Assault

PR: Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg, Joined by Dozens of Federal and State Judges, Calls for Due Process in Campus Sex Proceedings

Telephone: 301-801-0608 Email: info@saveservices.org Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg, Joined by Dozens of Federal and State Judges, Calls for Due Process in Campus Sex Proceedings WASHINGTON / February 20, 2018 – In a recent interview for The Atlantic, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg affirmed the need for due process in campus sexual assault proceedings. In addition, Ginsburg [...]
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Believe the Victim Campus Sexual Assault

Professors and Legal Experts Call for End to Guilt-Presuming ‘Victim-Centered’ Investigations

Telephone: 301-801-0608 Email: info@saveservices.org Professors and Legal Experts Call for End to Guilt-Presuming ‘Victim-Centered’ Investigations WASHINGTON / February 7, 2018 – Today 137 professors and legal experts are releasing an Open Letter that calls on college administrators, lawmakers, criminal justice agencies, and others to promptly end the use of so-called “victim-centered” investigations. Such investigations are fundamentally flawed [...]
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Believe the Victim

Lesson from the Michigan Sex Abuse Case: Campus Investigators Should Not Be Handling Felony Crimes

Telephone: 301-801-0608 Email: info@saveservices.org   Lesson from the Michigan Sex Abuse Case: Campus Investigators Should Not Be Handling Felony Crimes WASHINGTON / February 5, 2018 – In the wake of the January 24 sentencing of Lawrence Nassar on multiple charges of sexual abuse of young gymnasts, SAVE is calling for an end to the practice of [...]
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#MeToo Sexual Harassment

Women Around the World Warn of the Excesses of the #MeToo Movement

PRESS RELEASE Email: info@saveservices.org Women Around the World Warn of the Excesses of the #MeToo Movement WASHINGTON / January 29, 2018 – Numerous leading women around the world – including media personalities, professors, and commentators – have spoken out against the excesses of the #MeToo movement. Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE) has compiled these statements [...]
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Believe the Victim

Junk Science Behind Trauma-Informed Theories

Stop Abusive and Violent Environments Trauma-informed behavioral theories of sexual assault originated with anecdotal reports of how victims of forcible rape responded to their experiences. The concept of “rape trauma syndrome” (RTS) stemmed from a 1974 survey of 92 forcible rape victims’ self-reported symptoms.[1] Authors of the survey classified the symptoms into two stages: “fear or [...]
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Campus Title IX Victim-Centered Investigations

PR: SAVE Calls for Major Reforms to Campus ‘Victim-Centered’ Investigations

Contact: Nasheia Conway Telephone: 301-801-0608 Email: nconway@saveservices.org Following USC ‘motherf—er’ Case, SAVE Calls for Major Reforms to Campus ‘Victim-Centered’ Investigations WASHINGTON / January 12, 2018 – Superior Court Judge Elizabeth White recently issued a ruling regarding a sexual assault case in which she concluded the university’s investigative procedures lacked fairness and impartiality. Based on this case and [...]
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Domestic Violence Violence Against Women Act

PR: Report: DV Programs May be Shortchanging Women

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Nasheia Conway Email: nconway@saveservices.org Report: “Domestic Violence Programs May Be Shortchanging Women” WASHINGTON / December 13, 2017 – Stop Abusive and Violent Environments is today issuing a report that documents the ineffectiveness and unresponsiveness of the nation’s domestic violence programs, and reveals some of these policies may be harmful to women. SAVE calls [...]
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Accusing U. Campus

PR: SAVE Calls for an End to ‘Kangaroo Courts’

Contact: Chris Perry Telephone: 301-801-0608 Email: cperry@saveservices.org With Growing Bipartisan Support for Campus Due Process, SAVE Calls for an End to ‘Kangaroo Courts’ WASHINGTON / December 4, 2017 – Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE) is calling for the restoration of fairness and due process in campus sexual assault cases. SAVE is issuing this appeal in light [...]
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Campus Sexual Assault

PR: To Reduce Lawsuit Risk, Administrators Need to Implement New OCR Sexual Assault Guidelines

Contact: Chris Perry Telephone: 301-801-0608 Email: cperry@saveservices.org To Reduce Lawsuit Risk, Administrators Need to Implement New OCR Sexual Assault Guidelines WASHINGTON / October 11, 2017 – Since the issuance of the federal Dear Colleague Letter in 2011, nearly 200 lawsuits have been filed by accused students alleging lack of due process. (1) Implementation of the Department [...]