LSU’s Title IX office chose not to renew it’s comprehensive contract into the 2022 school year with Sexual Trauma and Awareness Response, the organization that helped LSU restructure the Title
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Title IX reporting rates have increased considerably following an overhaul of the universityâs Title IX office, notable especially because there are fewer enrolled students during the summer, interim Vice President of the office of Title IX and Civil Rights Jane Cassidy said.
Multiple factors are behind the increase in reports: the 18 recommendations in the Husch Blackwell report, the list of 47 action items sponsored by Cassidy at a Board of Supervisors meeting, and most recently, the legislature.
Three sexual assault-related bills passed through the House and Senate during the first session of 2021, the most notable of which is HB 409, now Act No. 472 after being signed off by Gov. John Bel Edwards. The House Bill zeroed in on LSUâs numerous violations of Title IX law and established strict guidelines that were lacking in previous legislation.
LSU football coach Ed Orgeron was asked to appear before a legislative committee seeking accountability for how the school mishandled sexual misconduct allegations involving student-athletes. Instead, the coach submitted a written letter Tuesday to lawmakers regarding allegations made against one of his former players.Read Ed Orgeron s letter to the Senate Select CommitteeThe leader of a sexual trauma survivors advocacy group said Orgeron s decision to skip the meeting along with recent revelations about a sexual harassment claim against a former LSU football player could deter other people from coming forward with their own complaints.Lawmakers were expected to press Orgeron on what he knew about claims from Gloria Scott. The 74-year-old New Orleans woman told the Senate Select Committee on Women and Children two weeks ago about a December 2017 encounter with then-LSU running back Derrius Guice. In a tearful account, Scott detailed how Guice made overt, explicit sexual com