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[Brett Sokolow <>]

Preponderance is required by Title IX. It was not codified in VAWA, nor did 
it need to be. Hope you are well, Kegan. 

Brett A. Sokolow, Esq.
President & CEO, The NCHERM Group, LLC. 
Executive Director, NABITA
Executive Director, ATIXA
610.993.0229

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On Mar 7, 2013, at 1:56 PM, "Kegan Allee" 
<>
 wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> In comparing the original Campus SaVE Act that was submitted to Congress on 
> April 14, 2011 and the bill that just passed with VAWA I have a question 
> about the preponderance of evidence standard.  The original bill language 
> said that schools must use the preponderance standard (see page 15, line 18 
> of the original language attached).  In the bill that was just passed it 
> says on page 37
> 
> ‘‘(ii) the procedures that such institution will follow once
> an incident of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault,
> or stalking has been reported, including a statement of the
> standard of evidence that will be used during any institutional
> conduct proceeding arising from such a report.”
> 
> Here is a link to a NPR article that states that Will Creeley of FIRE 
> advocated against the preponderance standard: 
> http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/03/07/173657424/law-targets-sexual-violence-on-college-campuses.
> 
> I’m writing to the list to see if anyone has any information about how 
> universities should proceed based on the DCL 2011.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Dr. Kegan Allee, Ph.D.
> Assistant Director, Campus Advocacy Resources and Education (CARE) and 
> Women's Center Programming
> Women, Gender, & Sexual Equity Programs
> University of California, Santa Barbara
> 1220 Student Resource Building
> Santa Barbara, CA 93106-7190
> 805-893-3305
> <mailto:>
> http://wgse.sa.ucsb.edu
> 
> <Campus SAVE Act.pdf>
> <original SaVE Act language.pdf>