ACLU sues Betsy DeVos over new campus sexual assault rules, alleging the Title IX changes will make it 'more difficult for victims of sexual harassment or sexual assault to continue their educations.'
Advocates are concerned that students are"required to jump through hoops" to persuade their schools to even open investigations, Ria Tabacco Mar, director of the ACLU's Women's Rights Project, said Thursday.
The suit, she said, challenges Title IX regulations that will redefine sexual misconduct in narrower terms — as misconduct"so severe, pervasive and objectively offensive" that it"denies a person equal access to the school's education program or activity." But Tabacco Mar argued that it creates a"double standard" for how schools must treat sexual discrimination complaints compared to how they handle allegations of racial, national origin and disability discrimination.
In addition, the suit takes issue with how the rule will allow colleges to investigate complaints that are made only through a formal process and to certain officials, as opposed to any school employee.
According to the suit, that would place"a heavier burden on those alleging sexual harassment than on students who allege other forms of harassment."
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