Scott Walker’s Wisconsin Budget Removes Sexual Assault Reporting Mandates for Colleges
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ABC News(MADISON, Wisc.) — Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wisc., has proposed alterations to the state of Wisconsin’s budget that would remove the mandate requiring colleges to report sexual assaults to the Department of Justice.
On page 508 of the governor’s budget recommendations posted to the Wisconsin state legislature’s website, Walker recommended “[deleting] language related to sexual assault information and reporting.”
The document specifically details changes Walker would enact, including deleting “the requirement that each institution report annually to the Department of Justice statistics on sexual assaults and on sexual assaults committed by acquaintances of victims that occurred on the campus of that institution in the previous years.”
Walker’s recommendations also include ending a mandate that requires colleges to provide oral and written or electronic information on sexual assault to newly entering and already enrolled students.
The proposal would also “delete the requirement that any person employed at an institution who witnesses a sexual assault on campus or receives a report from a student enrolled in the institution that the student has been sexually assaulted report the assault to the dean of students.”
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