Correction, Please!
DeVos Assailed for Restoring Due Process in College Sex Cases
Item: In an article entitled “Education Dept. relaxing rules on college sex offenses,” the Washington Post reported on September 23 that on the previous day the Trump administration “withdrew Obama-era guidance on how colleges and universities should respond to sexual violence, giving schools flexibility to use a higher standard of evidence in judging cases and formally shifting the federal stance on what has become an explosive campus issue.”
The Post said that the earlier action by President Obama was viewed by “victim advocates” as a “milestone in efforts to get schools to address the long-standing problem of campus sexual assault, punish offenders and prevent violence.”
Item: The Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) for September 15 reported of the partisan opposition to the scrapping of the Obama rules, saying: “A total of 29 Democratic senators including Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand warned Education Secretary Betsy DeVos not to rescind Obama-era guidance on handling campus sexual-assault cases, telling her that doing so would undermine protections of vulnerable victims.”
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