Categories
Violence Against Women Act

Plenty of Fireworks at Yesterday’s VAWA Hearing

Plenty of Fireworks at Yesterday’s VAWA Hearing SAVE March 14, 2019 The Violence Against Women Act reauthorization is churning ahead in Congress. Here’s the link to the House bill that was introduced last Thursday: https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/democrats.judiciary.house.gov/files/documents/VAWA_2019_xml%20%28003%29–Final%20Text%20%28004%29_0.pdf The bill resembles more of a utopian wish-list than a sensible approach to domestic violence. For starters, the bill defines “verbal,

Categories
Uncategorized

Worst university in America for due process asks judge to hide accused student’s lawsuit

https://www.thecollegefix.com/worst-university-in-america-for-due-process-asks-judge-to-hide-accused-students-lawsuit/?fbclid=IwAR1OhWDVOePLCpdGn45BMzEPhZY9FPO6p0Fzzgec52cmRc17FJ3J3-b2xv0 Worst university in America for due process asks judge to hide accused student’s lawsuit GREG PIPER – ASSOCIATE EDITOR •MARCH 12, 2019 Otherwise will ‘intimidate’ everyone in other sexual misconduct investigations Washington University in St. Louis has twice earned the lowest ranking in America for sexual misconduct policies in the annual due-process report by the

Categories
Uncategorized

As a sexual assault survivor, I support campus due process protections

https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/columnists/as-a-sexual-assault-survivor-i-support-campus-due-process/article_ed0f8b92-aea5-563c-81e2-4dec6174199f.html?fbclid=IwAR1k48kT1iy9t2RO8gW24GMG5WOgCp5Wx-zYnKiT8H6ULY-cw98OGTUEc0I As a sexual assault survivor, I support campus due process protections By Holly Rehder Mar 11, 2019 A Washington University freshman who declined to give her name reacts to a speaker on Thursday, April 26, 2018, at a campus protest to criticize the university’s handling of sexual assault claims by students. Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com

Categories
Uncategorized

Students at UNC schools accused of sexual assault would get protection under new law

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article227326134.html?fbclid=IwAR05Y99meYH8NRKwtUp_CZL137Bm9ofQMm0hRxvB1RyYRN2iuFtJQi9jCjg Students at UNC schools accused of sexual assault would get protection under new law BY MARTHA QUILLIN MARCH 08, 2019 06:40 PM, UPDATED MARCH 08, 2019 09:35 PM N.C. State University’s bell tower. 2008 NEWS & OBSERVER FILE PHOTO A bill introduced by a North Carolina lawmaker on Thursday would add legal protections for UNC system

Categories
Uncategorized

PR: PRESUMED GUILTY: Dishonest and Unethical ‘Start By Believing’ Investigations

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org PRESUMED GUILTY: Dishonest and Unethical ‘Start By Believing’ Investigations WASHINGTON / March 7, 2019 – Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE) is launching a national campaign to warn criminal defense attorneys, lawmakers, and others about the perils of Start By Believing (SBB) and other “victim-centered” investigative

Categories
Believe the Victim Campus

PR: ‘Start By Believing’ Investigations: Dishonest and Unethical

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org ‘Start By Believing’ Investigations: Dishonest and Unethical WASHINGTON / March 4, 2019 – Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE) is today launching a national campaign designed to alert college administrators, public officials, attorneys, and the public to the perils of Start By Believing and other “victim-centered”

Categories
Uncategorized

The Great Due-Process Revival

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/due-process-protections-metoo-movement/ The Great Due-Process Revival By DAVID FRENCH February 25, 2019 5:46 PM Signs at a “#MeToo” demonstration during the second annual Women’s March in Cambridge, Mass., January 20, 2018. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) I was traveling Friday and missed a rather interesting and consequential story. Lisa Borders, the CEO of Time’s Up, an “organization born of the #MeToo movement

Categories
Uncategorized

Judge approves anti-male bias lawsuit against University of Colorado

https://www.thecollegefix.com/judge-approves-anti-male-bias-lawsuit-against-university-of-colorado/ Judge approves anti-male bias lawsuit against University of Colorado ETHAN BERMAN – UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-AUSTIN •FEBRUARY 26, 2019 Accuser broke confidentiality with no sanction The University of Colorado-Boulder’s use of “trauma-informed” practices in sexual misconduct investigations are “plausible” evidence of bias against males, a federal court ruled last week. It denied the taxpayer-funded university’s motion

Categories
Uncategorized

Missouri Title IX overhaul gains steam, but faces uncertain future

https://www.thecollegefix.com/missouri-title-ix-overhaul-gains-steam-but-faces-uncertain-future/ Missouri Title IX overhaul gains steam, but faces uncertain future GRAHAM PIRO – STAFF REPORTER •FEBRUARY 25, 2019 UPDATED Legislators voice support, but may wait for national Title IX changes to take effect In November 2017, Holly Rehder published her #MeToo story in the St. Louis Post Dispatch. “There’s power in telling. Whether you receive justice or not,”

Categories
Uncategorized

Continued Judicial Rulings Against Biased, ‘Victim-Centered’ Campus Investigations

Continued Judicial Rulings Against Biased, ‘Victim-Centered’ Campus Investigations SAVE February 24, 2019 Campus investigators wield considerable influence in shaping the evidentiary record on which the fact-finder relies in rendering a determination of innocence or guilt. Current training administered to Title IX investigators focuses on a victim-centered approach that encourages them to “believe the victim.” Such