Gillibrand, Mccaskill Praise Proposed New Resources To Combat Campus Sexual Assault

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U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Claire McCaskill today praised the more than $30 million in new resources included in the President's budget, to help fund an additional 200 full-time staff at the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, which investigates and enforces sexual assault laws at colleges and universities.

"There's a lot of work Congress must do to address and prevent campus sexual assault, and that includes enforcing the laws we already have on the books -- which is exactly what this funding would help do," said Senator Gillibrand. "This budget request would finally provide the resources needed to properly investigate sexual assault complaints and put more cops on the beat to raise accountability on college and university campuses for accurately reporting statistics to the federal government."

"As we work to pass our bipartisan legislation, these additional resources are a terrific step in ensuring that as more survivors come out of the shadows to report these crimes, schools and law enforcement have the tools they need to help empower students and bring perpetrators to justice," said McCaskill, a former courtroom prosecutor of sex crimes.

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