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Campus sexual assault

Prevention Efforts

Affirmative consent policies

CA yes means yes

• Before Yes Means Yes, existing laws require CA higher education institutes to adopt policies concerning power-based violence in order to receive state funds
• The bill requires policies and protocols around power-based violence
  • there must also be an affirmative consent standard to
• This bill requires that schools must provide on and off campus resources or make services available to complainants
• must establish prevention and outreach programs
• "'Affirmative consent' means that affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity."
  • the responsibility lies within each person involved to ensure that affirmative consent is present to everyone involved
  • Consent must always be present, lack of protest is not consent
• CA campuses must collaborate with organizations on and off campus to provide resources and assistance to students and make conjunctive services available
• Campuses must exhibit prevention and outreach services through programming, awareness campaigns, and education
  • must involve participation and education to the student body/organizations, athletics, and student groups
  • must be included as part of new student's orientation

According to California's Yes Means Yes policy, California higher education institutes are required to enact specific protocols and policies in an attempt to combat power-based violence such as sexual assault on college campuses within the state. The state bill, as with others of the same degree, established the standard of consent known as "affirmative consent." This standard of consent placed the responsibility of attaining and maintaining consent to everyone involved in the sexual acts. In order to receive state funding for such matters, California campuses are responsible for collaborating with organizations both on and off campus in order to provide resources and assistance to the student body and make such services available when necessary. They must also exhibit prevention and outreach services to the campus community through programming, awareness campaigns, and education. This also includes holding awareness programming such as bystander intervention for incoming students during their orientation.

Student and organizational activism

General what is TBTN/Clothesline Project -- very brief intro, why is it relevant to section

Chanel Miller activism

Chanel Miller, a student at UC Santa Barbara, was sexually assaulted by a Stanford student, Brock Turner, after attending a fraternity party at Stanford. Turner was charged with five counts of sexual assault but was sentenced to only six months in prison. Throughout the trial, Miller remained anonymous through the pseudonym "Emily Doe" but stirred the public with her victim impact statement. She later identified herself and published a memoir titled Know My Name, which began her activism about rape on college campuses.

Trump administration efforts

-- updates to Title IX regulations--

• Betsy DeVos recently released the new finalized regulations of Title IX
  • Employees at universities and colleges are no longer required to report allegations of sexual misconduct and mandates that live hearings are held with opportunity for cross examination
  • "under the new regulations, to meet the definition of sexual harassment, the conduct 'has to be so severe, pervasive and objectively offensive that it effectively denies a person equal access to the recipient’s education program or activity, so that's definitely a higher burden.'" - Kathryn Nash, a higher education attorney at Lathrop GPM,
  • Assaults that happen off campus can no longer fall under the protection of Title IX regardless of whether any of the parties involved are students
  • If allegations do not meet the new criteria, schools are allowed to dismiss the case even if it is presented as a formal complaint

In May 2020, DeVos released the finalized new set of regulations under Title IX. Some of the new regulations hold that employees, such as faculty, athletic staff, and more, are no longer required to report allegation of sexual misconduct. It also mandates that those going through misconduct investigations are required to hold live hearings with the opportunity to cross-examine the accuser.

Criticisms/General Response

UC system response?

After the announcement of the new finalized Title IX regulations, the UC system president, Janet Napolitano, released a statement in response. In this statement, Napolitano announced their opposition with these new rules. It is believed by the UC system that along with the challenges faced by COVID-19, these new regulations will only further the barrier already in place when it comes to reporting. Their largest concern comes from the direct-examination students will be subject to if a formal complaint turns into an investigation. Lower standards from schools is also seen to "weaken fair and just policies that have taken decades to establish." However, there were aspects that the system agreed with, such as the inclusion relationship violence into the mix.

College programs

UC system CARE

• Peer education groups within campuses (UCI)(Ask Rosanna about peer groups @ UCR)/Green Dot?