Heard from victims advocates on changing how Sexual Assault are reported in the military. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. This is military personnel subcommittee. I am the chair jackie is my name. Today we are going to have a hearing entitled , me to moment. An examination of Sexual Harassment and perceived retaliation in the department of the defense and at fort hood. Hearing will now come to order. We are here to discuss a pernicious military culture. That time and time again the reports exposes an environment that is right for Sexual Harassment. Where women are our preferred entrant effort dont report them because of the stigma, they are retaliation ostracism or worse here that they wont be believed. And harassers want to be held accountable by declaring. I am vanessa. Thousands of Service Members and veterans have taken to the streets and social media demanding safety and respect. Demanding that the rules of the court Old Boys Club locker room talk are no longer the price of adm
Heard from victims advocates on changing how Sexual Assault are reported in the military. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. This is military personnel subcommittee. I am the chair jackie is my name. Today we are going to have a hearing entitled , me to moment. An examination of Sexual Harassment and perceived retaliation in the department of the defense and at fort hood. Hearing will now come to order. We are here to discuss a pernicious military culture. That time and time again the reports exposes an environment that is right for Sexual Harassment. Where women are our preferred entrant effort dont report them because of the stigma, they are retaliation ostracism or worse here that they wont be believed. And harassers want to be held accountable by declaring. I am vanessa. Thousands of Service Members and veterans have taken to the streets and social media demanding safety and respect. Demanding that the rules of the court Old Boys Club locker room talk are no longer the price of adm
Were covered up. We covered technical edits yesterday and those were edits where the staff and the Committee Members made edits. Those edits did not substantially change what was written. In most cases, it made it clear to the reader what was intended. Yesterday, there were several times where we had to stop what we were discussing because it needed to be discussed or deliberated in the public forum or Public Meeting today. When we get to those points, i will turn it over to the chair and she will discuss and handle that discussion. After you all come to a consensus, or dont come to a consensus, we will have a vote for what is going to go into the final report. We will start with the table of contents and page one. The edits that were made were approved by the general, as we move to page four, once again, those edits were approved yesterday because they did not have any substandard change to the report. Now we are on page six. Once again, we have no substantive change to the report of
Great, thank you very much for coming today. Were going to be talking about the per spespectives of the sers special Victims Counsel, Victims Legal Counsel Program managers regarding conviction and acquittal rates, the case adjudication process and the victim deckly medication in the military process, thank you ms. Specht, captain sullivan and colonel hamilton. To begin with, talking about the article 32 process. Some of the article responses to the committee raised concerns that the judge advocates serving as preliminary hearing officers lack extensive experience dealing specifically with Sexual Assault cases. Other responses indicated that due to the limited scope of article 32 preliminary hearing officers do not have all of the information needed to make a probable cause determination that is binding. The overall assessment was that the staff judge advocate who is often more experienced is in a better position to advise the convening authority on probable cause. Should a judge advoc
Thank you very much for coming today. Were going to talk about the perspectives of the Services Special Victim Counsel, Program Manager regarding conviction and acquittal rates, the case adjudication process and the victim declination in the military justice process. So thank you all. Some of the responses to the committee raised concerns that the judge advocate lacked expensive experience dealing specifically with Sexual Assault cases other responses indicated due to the limited scope of article 32 preliminary hearing officers do not have all the information needed to make a probable cause determination that is binding. The overall assessment was the staff judge advocate who is often more experienced is in a better position to advise the convening authority on probable cause. Should a judge advocate, sitting as a preliminary hearing officer serve in that role only if if he or she has significant litigation experience in Sexual Assault cases . Maam, the ideal would be yes, you would wa