Terrible, awful campus sex assault bill is back

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'An awful, reality-denying campus sexual assault bill is being pushed for in the Senate for the third year in a row, and there is much in the bill that should give congress pause.

The deceptively titled Campus Accountability and Safety Act would create new resources on campus for accusers, ensure minimum training standards for campus personnel who deal with accusations, require a memorandum of understanding with law enforcement, require schools to survey students annually about their experiences with sexual violence and create harsher penalties for schools that don't comply.
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Expecting a frightened 19-year-old who had a drunken one-night stand with a woman a year ago who is now claiming it was rape to be able to act as a trained and adequate attorney is absurd. Activists would like to brand this young man a rapist just because he has been accused — and that is exactly why the truth in these cases is so important and the ability to defend oneself is essential.

The "minimum training standards" alluded to by CASA's sponsors are "victim-centered" training standards, which presuppose all accusations as true and seem designed to ensure the accused is found responsible — no matter what the evidence shows.

Activists can claim that's not the case, but when "investigators" are taught that false accusations are so rare that they shouldn't be considered, a perfect atmosphere for false accusations is created. At the University of Texas, police officers were taught "victim-centered" approaches to investigating that involved conducting interviews in such a way as to ensure the accused has no exculpatory evidence — like failing to keep reports of follow-up interviews so that it can't look like accusers are contradicting themselves.'