UW-Madison is among 161 college campuses across the country that are the target of federal inquiries for their handling of sex assault investigations. Under the Obama administration, the OCR put the nation’s college campuses on notice in a 2011 letter that they were responsible for investigating allegations of sexual violence and harassment and sanctioning anyone found to have done wrong. Now sex assault survivors are speaking out about that process. Five of them visited Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel in December, asking that UW procedures for investigating reports of sexual assault and disciplining students found responsible for such misconduct be made more transparent.
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