Draw attention to whats i feel is a real urgency and i think everyone else does. I hear a great commonality in terms of our desire to take effective action. And were struggling with what that is. And also, as a parent whos dropped two kids off at college that rite of passage that all of us have shared and the convey answer of that trust that we put in the inls tuitions that we leave them at and the expectation they will not just educate them well but a provide a culture they feel safe and not put in the situation of either being a victim or ap2,m bystand. So my analogy and i appreciate the last two comments about the analogy to the military, alot of this conversation reminds me of the early 90s when i was in local government and the Clinton Administration bringing up Domestic Violence and the conversations we have had remind me very specifically of the challenges and even though everybody wanted to stop it, weve got to be careful of approaches because were all subject to subjective opi
Maybe and i have these concerns about going to the university or the college and maybe the counselor, adviser, leaning on them, maybe talking them out of prosecuting because of concern did for the alleged perpetrators career or education. Whatever the case may be, i worry about the fact that an individual who decides initially not to prosecute or not to report to the Law Enforcement, all the forensics is lost, and then several months later, several years later, they decide still within the statute of limitations i want that individual prosecuted so theyre not going to do that to anybody else and then the forensics is not there because it was never reported to Law Enforcement and the people that ended up dealing with it didnt have the capability to even put a case together in the first place. One other critical aspect of mandatory reporting is that theres no way to build up more trust with police than to work with them. You know, we cant we cant fix the problem if theres a problem in th
More insufficient attention has been placed o on addressing what i call the competency gap. The difference between what College Administrators are equipped to do and what the department of educations office for civil rights is demanding of them. Campuses are ill instituted to ajud indicate allegations of Sexual Assault. While college and universities have a role to play in tackling the issue, we must make sure that we are assigning themselves responsibilities they are capable of performing well. Having defended due process for 15 years, fire is convinced that colleges are simply unequipped to serve as investigators and fact findings in these challenging issues. Rape is a crime. It should be treated as such. Using amateur systems is insulting to victims and disastrous to fundamental fairness. Unsurprisingly injustice for both victims and accused is common place. Sound Public Policy requires adjudicating these cases in courts after professional investigations. Only courts have the power
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Nothing could be further from the truth. Instead those of us who handle incident us of Sexual Violence are professionals who share an overwhelming commitment to strike the delicate balance in todays legislative environment to preserve the Educational Rights of students, to manage conduct and above all to prevent Sexual Violence. Thank you. Thank you very much. Ms. Maatz, youre recognized for five minutes. Good morning, on behalf of the more than 170,000 members, over 1,000 branches and 900 college and University Partners of the American Association of university women, i thank you for inviting us to testify today. My remarks are informed by my 12 years with auw and my tenure as the executive director of a Domestic Violence program re recognized by excellence and also at whitten burg university where i was a a hall director that responded to incidents of Sexual Assault. I can personally attest to the fact this is not a new problem. When campus environments are hostile because of Sexual