Discussion List for campus-based and allied personnel working to end gender-based violence on campus.

 I thought I knew what I was talking about until I spoke with a policeman who said, "Students don't press charges, prosecutors press charges when university police call them up and say there's been a felony committed."

Please clarify:

1) Can a student can seek help at a women's center or from a SART team, SAPC, or even a resident advisor and not involve university police.  

 

If so, then  who makes the Clery report? 

 

2) Can a survivor get a rape kit on campus without police being called in?  Or does she have to find a doctor off-campus who knows how to do that.  (I assume that a social worker should advise a woman to have an examination, including the rape kit, for health reasons and just in case later on she wants to pursue the rape in court.) 

 

2) Are SANE nurses required to make Clery reports or call the police?

 

3) What is it called when a student gets help from university services and chooses to steer clear of the police?  Is it reporting?  Is it possible?

 

4) When we set up an off-campus agency for student rape survivors, are we required to call the police?  I know hotl-ine advocates don't have to call them.  

 

Thanks,   Linda Freedman

 

 

Linda Freedman, LCSW, PhD
Campus Rape Service Support Project (CRISP)
Institute for Clinical Social Work, Chicago
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