Sexual assault bills aim to expand disciplinary actions

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'Lawmakers in California are currently working to pass three separate bills aimed at addressing campus sexual assault which, if enacted, could severely restrict students’ rights.

Less than a year after the Golden State legislature unanimously approved a “yes means yes” law that redefined sexual consent to require “affirmative, unambiguous and conscious” consent from each party, lawmakers are making efforts to expand administrators’ power dealing with campus sexual assault at state community colleges.

Democratic Assemblyman Das Williams spearheaded the effort by introducing a Campus Sexual Assault Legislative Package. The package includes three bills that would lengthen punitive measures administered to students accused of sexual assault, require administrators to annotate students’ transcripts to divulge their involvement in any sexual assault hearings or allegations, and force applicants to disclose if they were previously convicted or found guilty of sexual misconduct by officials at a previous university.
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However, none of the additional power granted to administrators through the legislation would be contingent on a student’s conviction in the criminal justice system, according to Andrew Medina, a consultant for Assemblyman Williams.

“The minimum standard would fall under the campus adjudication process separate from the criminal justice system,” Medina wrote in an email to Campus Reform."'