Gondwanaland: Tell DOJ: No Registry Based on Kangaroo Courts!

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Tell DOJ: No Registry Based on Kangaroo Courts!

Forwarded below is a communication from Stop Abusive and Violent Environments urging public comment on a DOJ program that might lead to the creation of "sex offender" registry based on the highly defective judicial processes in place on many college and university campuses. Here's the text of what I just wrote to DOJ's Samantha Opong:

Dear Ms. Opong:

The first priority of the Campus Information Sharing and Response Project should be to ascertain how accurate and reliable are the procedures used by institutions of higher learning in response to allegations of sexual misconduct. In view of the extremely problematic nature of many of these proceedings, falling far short of the Constitution's due process requirements at the same time that they are based on definitions of sexual misconduct vastly more vague and expansive than those of statute law, it would be absolutely inappropriate and against the public interest to create any kind of national registry or database listing individuals found responsible by campus tribunals.

P.S. Here's an article for background: https://www.dailywire.com/news/27356/shock-justice-ruth-bader-ginsberg-comes-defense-emily-zanotti

http://www.saveservices.org/camp/doj-sex-offender-registry/

Friday is the Deadline to Comment on the DOJ Sex Offender Database

Dear Friend --

On August 1, 2018, the Department of Justice's SMART Office issued an announcement that it plans to do a survey of the "Policies and practices regarding individuals found responsible and sanctioned for campus sexual misconduct policy violations," including the "use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology." http://www.saveservices.org/camp/doj-sex-offender-registry/

This sounds an awful lot like a Title IX sex offender database, doesn't it?

Since then, DOJ officials have told SAVE that they have no "plans" to establish a Title IX sex offender registry. But when we've asked them to provide an official statement on the DOJ website, they go strangely SILENT.

But we're going to be SILENT on such a radical idea. So we all need to tell the DOJ to not move ahead with its Title IX sex offender database idea. Send your polite comments to:

Samantha Opong

SMART Office

Email: Samantha.Opong@usdoj.gov

For more information, see: http://www.saveservices.org/camp/doj-sex-offender-registry/ Deadline is Friday.

Sincerely,

The SAVE Team

1 comment:

stripey7 said...: I received the following response:

Thank you for contacting the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking, and for your comments on our proposed Campus Information Sharing and Response Survey.

Notice of intent to conduct the survey is posted on the Federal Register here. The survey will simply collect information about current college and university administrative policies and procedures regarding sexual assault perpetration prevention. We plan to collect information about the following:

1. Policies and procedures regarding registered sex offenders who may be students or employees

2. Policies and practices for campus sexual misconduct policy violations

3. Policies and procedures for reviewing prospective or current students’ criminal sexual misconduct history

Please note: The Department of Justice is not considering a proposal to have students found responsible in campus discipline listed in a sex offender registry.

For more information about the SMART Office, please visit SMART.gov.

Thank you,

Samantha; August 30, 2018