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

["Ross A Wantland" <>]

Hey y'all,

  I am wondering if any of your campuses have anonymous reporting
options for sexual assault/violence. If so, how do you define anonymous?
Do you assure anonymity of those reporting? How do you collect these?
What do you do with the information in the reports? How do you use it? 

    Several years back on our campus, we attempted to set up an
anonymous sexual harassment reporting process, but our legal counsel
said that it would open the university up to lawsuits if the university
new about an incident but didn't respond to the direct incident. (The
idea being that we could have possibly tracked down the individual if
they had logged on somewhere on campus, and that we could have been held
liable for not responding to the incident). But recent gov't reports
have suggested anonymous reporting as a promising practice for college
campuses. So I was wondering if other folks are doing this and how.

    Any info will be invaluable. Thanks so much!

In peace,

Ross

 

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Ross A. Wantland

Coordinator of Sexual Assault Education

300 Student Services Bldg. (MC-306)

610 E. John St.

Champaign, IL 61820

217-333-3137