So. I think youll find a lot of support among the committee for clearer cyanide, but also to resources needed to address these issues and not without a lot of conversations this morning about prevention and the importance of educating students about healthy relationship, healthy encounters and im glad we are talking about this before they get to college. There were some conversations about the teach safe relationship fact that safe relationship fact that theres a version and have been a cosponsor of other members of the committee. I invite the other Committee Members and colleagues to look at that enjoy nonbecause if we are preventing that is the best approach. We know we can take stronger steps not only in prevention. We want to make sure survivors of Sexual Assault have access to Research Services and privacy on an offcampus is and i want to emphasize we need to have policies encourage, not discourage survivors from reporting and tickling counseling. That is something we see in more
Chilling effect to pick up the phone and say i heard about your complaint, is there anything that i can do to help . Hopefully youll get more prosecutions and more convictions, you know, if Law Enforcement is brought in faster. Well, it seems to me that the dialogue here today has been much more a focus on helping the victim cope and deal. Thats all incredibly important and to deal with the aftermath and go forward. But i dont hear a lot of dialogue about justice. I dont hear a lot of dialogue about keeping evil perpetrators off the streets so they dont do it to another girl. I have two girls that have graduated from college, too, and i would be livid if some perpetrator who has sexually abused nume rul girls and they decided not to report and that did is still out there seeking to harm other girls and my girl ends up getting harmed. I might be pretty ticked off that guy is allowed to keep perpetrating these crimes. Right. I think one other thing needs to be said here about justice. Pe
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