Of stamp of approval of the students will right and that survivors were right. The thing that can be a powerful tool, but not so much the removal of all federal funds. This is really an important challenge because i have not had as much experience making laws as the folks at this table, but i have tried to enforce them over the years. Making a statute enforceable is a real art. Part of it depends on crafting a penalty that is realistic and enforceable. My sense is that we still have work to do on the penalties under title ix first because the penalty hence the students more than anyone else. It is, right now, very draconian for all those reasons it probably will be enforced. It would be nice to have a statute that was often force in. Really this out to be an area where it should be because the universities of to be eager to be complying with the standards and expectations that title ix creates. So i would appreciate your continuing to think and senator Claire Mccaskill is right. I have
And likely to commit it again. Accommodations under title ix are available regardless of whether you decide to go through the adjudication proceeding. Youre saying theyre not applied fairly even though they should be getting the same . Yes, what im saying is basically, if one student files a title 9 complaint in their investigation, their individual investigation, ocr is going in and interviewing other students who were sexually assaulted on that campus, and went through those same proceedings. And faced the same barriers and faced the same harassment from administrators. I see what youre saying. Now i understand. Those students, who have reported in this case. I see what youre saying. I understood the point you were making. I think the guidance is fairly clear that thats not what you just described is out of compliance. And so im not im not to judge another institution sitting here, but certainly, i feel like were very clear that if a student informs an appropriate person whos respons
There mccaskill posted second in a series of roundtable discussions aimed at combating Sexual Assault on College Campuses. College officials and victims advocates. This is just under two and a half hours. Thank you all for being here today. Assume senator tester and senator blumenthal will join us at some point today. They will have an opportunity for putting anything on the record it would like. I would like to start by welcoming the participants. This is the second round table in a series of three focusing on the complex and various issues that surround Sexual Assault on College Campuses. Two weeks ago we had a discussion on the clary at and the campus safe act. On thursday we will be holding the third roundtable discussion on something i am very concerned about, and that is the coordination, working collaboration between Law Enforcement and University Campuses in terms of holding perpetrators criminally accountable. I am holding these roundtables to bring together a Diverse Group of
Africanamericans. Now the pages detail systemic Racial Discrimination not just in the force but also in the courts and the report includes account after account of whats described as suspicious with legally unsupportable stops. I want to give you an example one man taken into custody for giving police his name as mike instead of michael. Cnn justice reporter evan perez has been scouring this report he broke the news yesterday about these doj findings and hes joining me live. Evan what else is in this report . Ana, these findings are really stark when you hear all the complaints when you and i were in ferguson from people and they describe the encounters they had with police and you see what the Justice Department is reporting here it really does back up what a lot of those people were talking about, and ill give you the example you gave of this person who gave his name as mike and the Police Officer charged him with lying, because his name was michael and because he provided an address
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