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["Michelle N. Issadore" <>]

Thank you to all who wrote back. We currently have a confidential, 
anonymous peer hotline/online anonymous reporting/confidential reporting 
structure via our Dean of Students advocates program. Lehigh has a 
Confronting Intolerance site 
(http://www.lehigh.edu/~instuaff/intolerance.shtml) which goes into 
detail regarding our definitions (and others') of bias incidents and 
hate crimes.

We are thinking about increasing our reporting of these acts, as well as 
acts of sexual violence, to raise awareness and keep the subjects from 
being taboo. Our anonymous reports are already in our crime stats, as 
required by Clery, but students and other campus community members may 
not check that resource.

Our concern is with reporting out such incidents, of course without 
identifying information, when the victim's or survivor's wishes differ. 
We thought that by reporting out on a monthly or semester basis, we 
could avoid having incidents linked to individual students. We also 
thought an online log, linked on our homepage, could prove more useful 
than our crime stats.

I was at one of Brett Sokolow's presentations on going beyond the Clery 
Acts in terms of reporting and am interested in whether other schools do 
this now or have suggestions on what could work. Please let me know if I 
can clarify.

Best,
Michelle

S. Daniel Carter wrote:
> Michelle,
>
> The Clery Act affords institutions the opportunity to establish voluntary
> confidential reporting structures that don't require that personally
> identifiable information go any further than the person receiving the
> report. This can be written into school policy and publicized so that
> students, and others, know about their options to make reports while
> maintaining their confidentiality.
>
> If you need any help getting something like this set up please let me know.
> Also, if this isn't exactly what you were looking for please don't hesitate
> to ask additional questions.
>
> ********************************
> S. Daniel Carter
> Director of Public Policy
> Security On Campus, Inc.
> http://www.securityoncampus.org/
> e-mail:
>
> on 11/18/08 4:11 PM, Michelle N. Issadore at 
>
>  wrote:
>
>   
> > Hello all,
> >
> > We had some bias incidents recently and are considering ramping up our
> > outreach regarding reporting. How do you recommend protecting victims'
> > of bias incidents/survivors' of sexual violence anonymity if they do not
> > wish to formally report? We've considered sending out email reports
> > monthly or each semester, or including a link on our website that
> > students can check periodically. I'd be happy to share suggestions I
> > receive with the list.
> >
> > Best,
> > Michelle
> >
> > --
> > Michelle N. Issadore
> > Assistant Director
> > Lehigh University Women¹s Center
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> > Bethlehem, PA 18015
> >
> >
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Michelle N. Issadore
Assistant Director
Lehigh University Women's Center
University Center, Room C201A
29 Trembley Drive 
Bethlehem, PA 18015


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