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What does the investigation involve?

If you decide to report, it says here about the support you get, and all the accommodations, and it says what the person who did the sexual assault is gonna get, like, a suspension, probation etc.. But, what about the process of the investigation? What does it involve? I think it’s important to know that.

Recommendations

  • Engage external investigators to adjudicate all sexual assault cases. Describe the process by which investigators are selected within the policy. Communicate this process to complainants and respondents.

  • Offer fictionalized but representative examples of how disclosures and reports to the university have been handled.

  • Provide detail and clarity about what happens, and who helps the students involved, at every stage of the process following a disclosure or report.