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OCR Issues FAQ On Privacy When Filing a Complaint
In November 2024, the Department of Education issued a new document: “Frequently Asked Privacy-Related Questions About Filing a Complaint with OCR.” The title is apt, and the document attempts to address the questions commonly received by OCR concerning how the...
OCR Resolves Title VI Shared Ancestry Discrimination Investigation at Temple University in Pennsylvania
In early December the Office for Civil Rights announced that it entered into a resolution agreement with Temple University. The Department of Education’s press release was fairly positive, calling the University’s processes “robust” and finding that the University...
Stop Campus Hazing Act Will Amend the Clery Act – Full Analysis
With unanimous consent, the Senate joins the House in passing the Stop Campus Hazing Act (SCHA), which amends the Clery Act for the first time in over a decade. President Biden is expected to sign the bill when received. The SCHA amends the Clery Act by expanding the...
Digital Accessibility—Compliance Updates Required for Schools
As reported in Friday’s The Chronicle of Higher Education, public colleges nationwide will enter 2025 with a pressing mandate to make their web and mobile-app content accessible for all students. That is because by April 24, 2026, all public entities serving...
HR, Bullying or Title IX? OCR Resolution Reminds Schools to Properly Classify Cases
OCR Reaches Resolution of Title IX Sexual Harassment Investigation of Owasso Public Schools in Oklahoma In mid-November, OCR entered into a resolution agreement with Owasso Public Schools in Oklahoma after investigating a Title IX complaint. The complaint alleged that...
The Department of Education issued new documents relating to the 2024 regulations. One about Title IX Coordinators—what is the role, what are their obligations, etc. The other is a FAQ on pregnancy or related conditions, and parental, family, and marital status. We...
US SUPREME COURT DECLINES TO ENFORCE PARTS OF 2024 TITLE IX RULE
On Friday, August 16, the US Supreme Court declined to take up the Biden administration’s request that it enforce parts of the new Title IX Rule while the injunctions are under appeal. Check out a message from Co-Founders Jody Shipper and Cherie Scricca addressing how...
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — Florida, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina Under Injunction
Remember yesterday? Well, that's old news. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals approved a motion by Florida, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina and four other plaintiffs for an administrative injunction. The Department is enjoined from enforcing the final rule...
Injuction Update
Today the court in Alabama denied the plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction of the Title IX rules in the plaintiff states – Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina. This case also had plaintiff organizations. This means that the rules will be effective...
A National Clery Act Survey Created to Collect Valuable Data
Grand River Solutions is pleased to partner on the first-of-its-kind Clery Act State of the Field Survey designed to gather benchmark data from and for Clery Act practitioners across the country. The goals of the Clery Act State of the Field Survey, developed by Clery...