Live Blog: The Last Meeting for Making New Campus Sexual Assault Regulations, Day 6
What You Need to Know
After three months of hard work, negotiators agreed by consensus to a proposed rule to implement the VAWA amendments to the Clery Act (also known as Campus SaVE). This is a victory for improving campus safety – it takes these regulations to implement the new provisions in VAWA. The six sessions haven’t been without disagreement. If you’ve been following the liveblog you know that divisions were deep at times and that consensus seemed potentially out of reach. You can read about some of the compromises made by the group during the final sessions in the transcript below.
AAUW is gratified negotiators moved this rule forward – it will guide colleges and universities to provide prevention programming, clear policies, transparent disciplinary proceedings, and more comprehensive crime statistics. Students gain much from the implementation of the new law and these regulations – an advisor of their choice at disciplinary proceedings and more detail about how their school handles certain crimes, from reporting, to investigation, to disciplinary proceeding. In addition, the programming and awareness activities this law will spur have the potential to stem the tide of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking on campus.
There will still be a public comment period on the rule and AAUW will be weighing in. We hope you will too!
Read the live blog below.