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["Shaffer, Jyl R" <>]

Wendi, if you look at page 23 of the OCR Q&A the first paragraph talks about employees working as advocates who are not professional or pastoral counselors. Your institution could (but they don’t have to) exempt individuals serving as advocates (“non-professional counselors or advocates”) from Title IX reporting duties. Be aware, though, that it would not exempt you from being a CSA under the Clery Act and its required reporting (if your advocates would meet CSA criteria). Your advocates may still need to provide de-identified reports as per your CSA policy even if they are exempt from Title IX reporting. The end of page 23/top of page 24 also talks about de-identified reporting as a tool of identifying patterns or systemic problems (which would be separate from CSA duties).

 

Page 42 reviews the list of what should be reported by a Title IX responsible employee, and it would include names and other identifiable information. If your institution determines that WC staff are going to be required to report under Title IX then they would need to release all the information they know.

 

I hope that helps!

 

Jyl R. Shaffer

Equal Opportunity Specialist

Office of Equal Opportunity Services

University of Houston

153 Student Service Center 2

Houston, TX 77204-3020

Direct line: (713) 743-8821

Fax: (713) 743-0959

Office main line: (713) 743-8835

www.uh.edu

 

From: White, Wendi E. [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 2:30 PM
To:
Subject: Question on Title IX and confidentiality

 

Dear Sister Programs,

 

We are working our way through the latest guidance from OCR regarding whether or not Women’s Center advocates can afford students confidentiality. Our administration’s current reading of the Questions and Answers is tilting toward requiring that victim’s and perpetrator’s names, along with the details of each incident, be shared with our Title IX office. If your institution is also clarifying its policies and protocol on confidentiality per Title IX, could you share the outcome of those deliberations and the underlying rationale for any changes?

 

Thanks so much for all you do to build a safer world.

 

Wendi White

Interpersonal Violence Prevention Coordinator

Old Dominion University

Women’s Center

757-683-4109

http://www.odu.edu/womenscenter

 

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