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    MiloMinderbenderKatie J.M. Baker
    10/01/13 5:25pm

    If OCR is shutting down their investigations, they're shutting down their investigations. All of them. It's unnecessarily alarmist (and not logically related) to say that "campus safety is 'nonessential'." OCR would keep running if it could but keep in mind that Dept. of Ed. investigations are not the same thing as law enforcement.

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      Ari Schwartz: Dark Lord of the SnarkKatie J.M. Baker
      10/01/13 5:49pm

      If it's any consolation, a whole lot of other shit has also been affected. So at least this isn't limited and targeted.

      Bright side, or less dark downside? Beats me...

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        wasabi75Katie J.M. Baker
        10/01/13 5:34pm

        I work on a college campus and am the chair of a committee for women's issues. Just today our EEOC compliance officer came in to brief us on our new "duty to report" rules that have come out of the recent changes to OCR investigations. I've actually been really heartened at the change in how these situations are handled that has come as a result of Rutgers, Yale and some other school receiving harsh fines. My institution is not being investigated, but I certainly hope news that OCR is shut down does not have a chilling effect on changes many universities have been implementing as a result of OCR's recent heightened efforts.

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