Continuing March Toward Legislation

Gavel on scale of justice

Just a week after the White House released a report on college sexual assault, Sens. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut will each hold three events, one focused on campus safety laws, the Clery and Campus SaVe Acts; one on the gender equity law Title IX; and a third on how both colleges and the criminal justice system respond to campus rape.

The roundtables are scheduled to take place on May 19, June 2 and June 16. McCaskill said in a statement, “These meetings will help us understand, from those who know best, what more we can do for students, administrators and law enforcement to give them the tools they need to curb this epidemic.”

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Author: Sari Lipsett

Sari Lipsett has worked in Wisconsin and California doing prevention education and programing, survivor advocacy, public policy and grants management. Sari works in CALCASA’s Southern California Office where it is sunny all the time.

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