By WMAL.com
The Loudoun County School Board voted in favor of updating the Title IX policies for the county’s school system. The move is in response to backlash from parents and community members over their gross mishandling of sexual assault cases in the past.
- Policy changes: include the immediate investigation of any allegations regarding sexual misconduct or harassment.
- National spotlight: the Loudoun County School Board found itself in hot water and in the national media last year for their handling of a case regarding a boy who was transferred for sexually assaulting a girl in the school bathroom, and later went on to sexually assault another young girl at the new school.
- New policy: “The Title IX Coordinator is responsible for ensuring that once any school or division employee has notice of sex discrimination, sexual harassment, or sexual misconduct … the division takes immediate and appropriate steps to investigate what occurred and takes prompt and effective action to stop the discrimination or harassment, prevent the recurrence, and remedy the effects.”
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