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Title IX Coordinator as a Non-Decision Making Personnel
Can a Title IX Coordinator serve as a non-decision-making procedural facilitator during the live hearing?
Read More...Title IX Coordinator as Investigator
Can a Title IX Coordinator also serve as an investigator?
Read More...Role of the Title IX Coordinator
Do the Title IX regulations specify who can and cannot serve as a recipient’s Title IX Coordinator?
Read More...Elementary and Secondary School Proceedings: Requirement of Formal Complaint
Are all of the written notifications and opportunities for parties to provide feedback during an investigation of a formal complaint, outlined in 34 C.F.R. § 106.45, required for both elementary and secondary schools, and postsecondary institutions? If not, what Title IX grievance process requirements differ for elementary and secondary schools?
Read More...Elementary and Secondary School Proceedings: Different Process Than Higher Ed?
Do the provisions in the Title IX regulations regarding a complainant’s prior sexual history and sexual predisposition apply at both the elementary and secondary school and postsecondary levels?
Read More...Elementary and Secondary School Proceedings: Prior Sexual History
Do the provisions in the Title IX regulations regarding a complainant’s prior sexual history and sexual predisposition apply at both the elementary and secondary school and postsecondary levels?
Read More...Clery Act and Dismissals
How would a complainant’s request to dismiss, or a postsecondary institution’s decision to dismiss, a formal complaint of sexual harassment under Title IX affect the postsecondary institution’s responsibility under the Clery Act?
Read More...Clery Act Descriptions
Do the Title IX regulations intend to mirror Clery Act geography in all off-campus descriptions?
Read More...Complainant and Confidentiality
How can a recipient address a complainant’s request for confidentiality, including in instances where a Title IX Coordinator signs the formal complaint initiating an investigation into a complainant’s sexual harassment allegations?
Read More...FERPA and Confidentiality
The Title IX regulations make the release of a respondent’s identity confidential unless the FERPA exceptions apply. FERPA permits but does not require the nonconsensual disclosure of records by postsecondary educational institutions in connection with disciplinary proceedings concerning crimes of violence or non-forcible sex offenses. Crimes of violence and non-forcible sex offenses do not include all forms of sexual harassment as defined in 34 C.F.R § 106.30(a). Does that mean that recipients cannot reveal the identity of a respondent found responsible for sexual harassment, including in response to a reference check, because it would be retaliatory to release this confidential information, assuming there is no state law requiring this information to be revealed?
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