California is crafting a new college sexual misconduct policy. It must be fair to all.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Whatever policy is recommended, there’s now a fresh reminder that the due process rights of the accused must not be abridged. On Aug. 8, a state appeals court in Los Angeles ruled on a 3-0 vote that a male Claremont McKenna College student punished for alleged wrongdoing had his rights violated by a college disciplinary process that limited his ability to defend himself against accusations. The verdict affirmed the view of Harvard law professor Nancy Gertner, who wrote in 2015 that policies adopted by colleges created the “worst of both worlds” for accused students — a system in which they could be found guilty based on a “preponderance” of evidence, as with civil lawsuits, but without the protections available in civil lawsuits through the evidence discovery process.

The good news for the Golden State is that there’s already an appreciation that due process matters at the University of California. UC President Janet Napolitano — who raised sharp questions about the Obama rules in a 2014 essay for the Yale Law & Policy Review — has ordered UC campuses to follow a transparent process that ensures the rights of the accused, according to new San Diego State University President Adela de la Torre, a former UC Davis vice chancellor.'