Daniel Swinton, senior
executive vice president at the NCHERM Group, a law and consulting firm that
advises schools and colleges on safety issues, said that Title IX requires
colleges to have in place policies that promote accountability in sexual harassment
and assault cases and protect the safety of victims. And colleges usually view
maintaining privacy in investigations as a way of keeping victims safe
emotionally as well as physically, he said.
Regardless of what
institutions find in their investigations, Swinton added, because of legal
concerns and concern for the parties involved, they “aren’t in the habit of
broadcasting outcomes.” That leaves open the possibility for a “skewed
narrative to get out to the public, particularly on social media. The story
that gets out there first is the one that gets the most traction.”
Still, Swinton said,
colleges and universities rarely if ever intervene to correct the public record
– even if they were to obtain the consent of both parties.
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