JUDGE REBUKES UCSB for Using ‘Trauma Informed’ Approach in TitleIX Proceeding. Ordered to Pay Accused Student $31K
Administrators in California public colleges should sit up and take notice of a new ruling out of the state Superior Court against the University of California regents. Not only were they ordered to pay $31,000 to an accused student in a Title IX proceeding, but Judge Tara Desautels specifically faulted the “trauma informed” training that was used in the University of California-Santa Barbara’s proceeding against “John Doe.” This approach to investigating sexual violence, commonly used in Title IX proceedings nationwide and increasingly in police investigations, has come under fire from neuroscience researchers and legal experts as unscientific and biased against accused people. It essentially tells investigators and adjudicators to view inconsistent and shifting explanations by accusers as evidence they were victimized.
thecollegefix.com By Greg Piper
