Campus Accountability and Safety Act

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Kirsten Gillibrand
U.S. Representative for New York's 20th
U.S. Senator from New York

United States Senate

The Campus Accountability and Safety Act (CASA) was a bill introduced in the 114th United States Congress with the goal of reducing sexual violence on college and university campuses.[1][2][3] First introduced in 2014, a revised bill was introduced in February 2015 by Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri with nine bi-partisan cosponsors. 43 cosponsors eventually signed on. The bill died in committee at the end of the session without reaching a floor vote in either house.

Supporters of the bill believe that it will help to reform the sexual assault investigation process to protect victims and achieve prosecution of offenders by increasing transparency and cooperation between higher education institutions and local law enforcement.[4][5] Estimates from the National Sexual Violence Resource Center places the number of men who survive sexual assault in college at about 1 in every 16 students, and for women, every 1 in 5.[6]

  1. ^ Campus Accountability and Safety Act (S. 2692). 2014.
  2. ^ Campus Accountability and Safety Act (H.R. 5354). 2014.
  3. ^ Rhodan, Maya (July 30, 2014). "Bipartisan Bill Aims to Reform Campus Sexual Assault Investigations". Time.
  4. ^ Gillibrand, Kirsten. "Resource Center: Campus Accountability and Safety Act". Archived from the original on 2014-08-28. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
  5. ^ McCaskill, Claire. "The Bipartisan Campus Accountability and Safety Act" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-17. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
  6. ^ Statistics about sexual violence (PDF), National Sexual Violence Resource Center, 2015.