Recent reports about mold in residence halls and the spread of viruses among students are an important reminder that threats to campus safety can be biological and may trigger the Jeanne Clery Act’s emergency notification requirement just like a criminal Read More …
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Title IX NPRM Comment Period To Re-open For 24 Hours This Friday
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) will reopen the Title IX NPRM public comment period for 24 hours on Friday, February 15th in “an abundance of caution” to address concerns that some users may have experienced technical issues preventing submission Read More …
SAFE Campuses, LLC Officially Files Comments Opposing Title IX Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
Safety Advisors for Educational Campuses, LLC (SAFE Campuses, LLC), a social entrepreneurship organization devoted to safer learning environments, formally filed comments with the U.S. Department of Education Monday night opposing their proposed adoption of controversial changes to Title IX regulations. Read More …
The Title IX NPRM Would Irresponsibly Narrow The Definition of Sex-Discrimination
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is proposing an unprecedented roll-back of Title IX guidelines that have helped to create the framework American schools have used to combat sex-based harms for over 20 years. The Title IX Notice of Proposed Read More …
President George H.W. Bush’s Campus Safety Legacy
George H.W. Bush the 41st President of the United States who passed away on November 30th played an important role in the early years of the campus safety movement. He signed the original 1990 Campus Security Act (now the Jeanne Read More …
The Title IX NPRM Would Discriminate Based On Sex
The Title IX Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) published earlier this week is fundamentally flawed because it would treat sex-discrimination civil-rights protections unequally from other civil-rights enforced by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Notably OCR Read More …
How to Comment on the Title IX NPRM
After more than a year in preparation, the formal proposal by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to bring sweeping changes to Title IX sex-discrimination regulations is set to be published in the Federal Register tomorrow morning, Thursday, November 29, 2018. The Read More …
Expect Larger, Faster Clery Act Fines
In the most significant Jeanne Clery Act enforcement action in several years, the U.S. Department of Education last week notified the University of Montana that they intend to fine them nearly $1 million for violations of the campus crime reporting Read More …
Ruling That Accused Entitled to Cross-Examine Accuser in Campus Rape Cases is “A Bridge too Far”
The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down an opinion in Doe v. Baum, et al. on Friday, September 7, 2018 that has the potential to substantially change college and university conduct proceedings. A three-judge panel held in a Read More …
Mandatory Reporting to Off-Campus Police Isn’t the Solution to Campus Sexual Violence
Following several high-profile campus sexual assault incidents, Utah’s legislature recently advanced a bill, HB 254, out of their House Judiciary Committee that would provide for colleges and universities to report sexual assaults to “off-campus law enforcement” over the objections of Read More …