Feminist journalists wrongly report governor sought to hide campus rape stats

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'Several left-leaning news sites recently reported that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker wants universities to stop reporting instances of sexual assault to the feds – a factually incorrect assumption that spread across the Internet like wildfire before the stories were retracted.

It began with an inflammatory article published by Jezebel on Friday that falsely claimed Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker “wants colleges to stop reporting sexual assault.” It came after the Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau released an analysis of Walker’s 2015-17 budget proposal on Thursday, which showed the deletion of a requirement that forces campuses to report incidences of sexual assault to the Department of Justice.
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It soon became apparent, however, that these reports were all based on inaccurate information.
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According to UW system spokesman Alex Hummel, the university asked the governor to remove the language from the budget because federal law already mandates campuses to provide the information. Universities are also required to post this information on their website.

Hummel told The Associated Press “student education and mandatory reporting are important practices also built in, and those practices are going to continue on our campuses...We are not lessening our commitment here or at our institutions one iota.”
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Walker’s office confirmed that the deletion of the language on sexual assault in the UW campus budget proposal in no way changes the laws regarding how these crimes are reported. The Clery Act and Title IX and one state stature will continue to require universities to report acts of sexual assault on their campuses, regardless of language used in the budget.'