FIRE Petition: Title IX Regs Put Student Rights at Risk
FIRE has started a petition calling on the Department of Education to reaffirm due process rights after proposed new Title IX regulations were announced “that will threaten students’ right to free speech and strip them of critical due process protections that ensure they are treated fairly in campus trials.”
As FIRE states, “The federal government’s proposed new policy will gut some of America’s most basic principles of justice by: eliminating students’ right to a live hearing; eliminating the right to cross-examination; weakening students’ right to active legal representation; allowing a single campus bureaucrat to serve as judge and jury; [and] hollowing out protections for free speech.”
FIRE underscores that “the law has been twisted in ways that seem more designed to serve political ends than remedy campus discrimination.”
Related:
Sex Police (Common Sense, 6/27/22)
Expect the Title IX Inquisition (Tablet, 6/28/22)
5 Ways Biden's New Title IX Rules Will Eviscerate Due Process on Campus (Reason, 6/23/22)
