FYI: TITLE IX Rule Is Effective On August 14, 2020. And Is Not Retroactive
According to the Office for Civil Rights Blog, the new Title IX rules that will go into effect on 8/14/2020, will not be retroactive. I know that this is very disappointing, as many of America’s sons and daughters, (…really, it’s mostly sons) endured horrific mental trauma in being falsely accused, while denied due process, and the opportunity to defend oneself against an accusation, which was often anonymous.
I certainly wish the new 2020 Title IX guidelines were retroactive. It would be nice if our sons who were denied Title IX due process could at last, be heard. It would be nice if our loving kind sons, who endured unreasonable, unethical and hateful/bias Title IX hearings might actually be allowed retroactively to do something that many have been denied, by their University. And that is to defend their reputation, to defend their decent nature, to defend their good name, to defend their innocence. But the Office for Civil Rights has decided this is not to be.
While I am grateful that Trump’s Dept of Education put an end to the unjust and illegal 2011 Dear Colleague Letter under Obama/Biden, I am frustrated with OCR on this specific issue. -Alice True
Read OCR’s blog post about this subject: 2.ed.gov/ocr/blog
