California Senate Bill 493 (authored by SenHannahBeth) would protect students’ safety and access to education, writes jstender415 and Caroline Doe, a student survivor & advocate for survivors’ rights.
As a student survivor of sexual assault and a legal advocate for student survivors, we know firsthand how harmful it can be when schools fail to respond appropriately to students’ reports of sexual violence., often because their school didn’t do enough to make them feel safe and supported after they reported.
As a result, investigations dragged on for months; investigators asked inappropriate, victim-blaming, or culturally insensitive questions; and schools automatically issued “mutual no-contact orders” , limiting the survivor’s movements on campus—which, to survivors, felt a lot like being punished for reporting rape.
To make matters worse, DeVos issued these sweeping changes at the exact moment schools everywhere desperately scrambled to respond to a global pandemic with little guidance from the federal government.are meant to silence survivors and let sexual assailants off the hook. They roll back civil rights protections for all students, but they are especially harmful to survivors. They:
Eliminate deadlines, giving assailants and harassers the ability to drag out the investigation, hearing, and appeals processes endlessly to avoid accountability.Survivors and advocates in California have decided to take matters into our own hands. would do exactly that.
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