Sexual Misconduct Title IX

Sexual Misconduct ＆ Title IX

Title IX: A Student's Right To Know

Title IX Coordinators

Other Contacts

What Is Title IX?

"No person in the U.S. shall on the basis of sex be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving federal financial aid."

Title IX (20 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq.) is a federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in educational programs and activates, including academic, educational, extracurricular, athletics and employment. Title Ix protects all people regardless of their gender or gender identity from sex discrimination, including sexual harassment and sexual misconduct.

Title IX covered acts: Sexual discrimination/ harassment, sexual misconduct, sexual violence (rape, sexual assault, etc.), sexual exploitation, sex/gender based stalking, sex/gender based bullying, sex/gender based hazing, and intimate partner violence.

When sexual violence/sexual harassment is reported and found to have occurred, Title IX requires the District must take prompt and effective steps to:

1. End the sexual violence/sexual harassment,
2. Prevent its recurrence, and
3. Address its effects, whether or not the sexual violence/sexual harassment is the subject of a criminal investigation.

What Is The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)?

The Violence Against Women Act (42 U.S.C. § 13701 et seq.) is a federal law that provides funding for the investigation and prosecution of violent crimes against women, imposed automatic and mandatory restitution on the victims of those convicted, and allows civil redress in cases where prosecutors chose not to prosecute. The Act also established the Office on Violence Against Women within the Department of Justice. In 2013, the VAWA was strengthened and reauthorized with the inclusion of the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act (Campus SaVE). Campus SaVE also amended the Jeanne Clery Act and clarified that "sexual violence" includes domestic violence, dating violence and stalking which must be included in the Campus Clery reports, and also required that institutional policies address and prevent sexual violence through training and education, and certain discipline procedures.

Campus SaVE higher education institution obligations include:

1. Increased transparency about sexual assault issues on campus by expanding sexual crime reporting;
2. Identify the institution's Campus Security Authority (CSA's) personnel;
3. Create a Campus Sexual Assault Victim Bill of Rights;
4. Set standards for disciplinary proceedings; and
5. Require campus-wide prevention education programs

Title IX Trainings for Title IX Personnel

Beatriz Chaidez (Lead Title IX Coordinator)

Title IX Coordinator 1 Training ATIXA (Thursdays in August of 2020)    
 

Title IX Training Series: Part 1, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore by Eileen O’Hare –Anderson & Monica Espejo (Online via Zoom) October 29, 2021 

 

Title IX Training Series: Part 2, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore by Eileen O’Hare –Anderson & Monica Espejo (Online via Zoom) November 5, 2021 

 

Title IX Training Series: Part 3, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore by Eileen O’Hare –Anderson & Monica Espejo (Online via Zoom) November 11, 2021

 

William Garcia (Title IX Coordinator for San José City College)

Title IX Coordinator 1 Training ATIXA  (Online via Zoom) September 20-21, 2021 

 

Title IX Training Series: Part 1, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore by Eileen O’Hare –Anderson & Monica Espejo (Online via Zoom) October 29, 2021 

 

Title IX Training Series: Part 2, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore by Eileen O’Hare –Anderson & Monica Espejo (Online via Zoom) November 5, 2021 

 

Title IX Training Series: Part 3, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore by Eileen O’Hare –Anderson & Monica Espejo (Online via Zoom) November 11, 2021 

 

Howard Willis (Title IX Coordinator for Evergreen Valley College)

Title IX Coordinator 1 Training ATIXA  (Online via Zoom) June 8, 2021

 

Title IX Training Series: Part 1, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore by Eileen O’Hare –Anderson & Monica Espejo (Online via Zoom) October 29, 2021 

 

Title IX Training Series: Part 2, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore by Eileen O’Hare –Anderson & Monica Espejo (Online via Zoom) November 5, 2021 

 

Title IX Training Series: Part 3, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore by Eileen O’Hare –Anderson & Monica Espejo (Online via Zoom) November 11, 2021

 

Vacant  (Milpitas- Deputy Title IX Coordinator for Milpitas Site location)

Title IX Training Series: Part 1, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore by Eileen O’Hare –Anderson & Monica Espejo (Online via Zoom) October 29, 2021 

 

Title IX Training Series: Part 2, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore by Eileen O’Hare –Anderson & Monica Espejo (Online via Zoom) November 5, 2021

 

Title IX Coordinator and Administrator Training & Certification Course –October 6-8, 2018, Philadelphia, PA

K-12 Title IX Coordinator One Training- August  2 & 3, 2021, Online (Zoom)

K-12 Title IX Coordinator Training Advanced- August 5 & 6, 2021, Online (Zoom)

 

https://atixa.org/2020-regulations-requirement-posting-of-training-materials/

 

Blake Balajadia (Deputy Title IX Coordinator for SJCC and Investigator)

Title IX Coordinator 1 Training ATIXA  (Online via Zoom) September 20-21, 2021

 

Title IX Coordinator and Administrator Training & Certification Course - June 13-16, 2016, Denver, CO    
 

Civil Rights Investigator Level Three Sexual Harassment Certification and Training Course - September 24th & 25th, 2018, San José CA

 

ATIXA IX and Wine - Friday, April 17, 2020, Zoom

Student Title IX Training - The Struggles with Creating Effective Educational Programs with Today's Students. 

 

ATIXA IX and Wine - Friday, April 24, 2020, Zoom

Taking Off-Campus Jurisdiction Over Online and Off-Campus Student Misconduct During the Pandemic

 

ATIXA IX and Wine - Friday, May 8, 2020, Zoom

How Do We Minimize the Chilling Effect on Reporting of Sexual Misconduct the New 2020 Title IX Regulations Are Likely to Have?

 

Title IX Training Series: Part 1, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore by Eileen O’Hare –Anderson & Monica Espejo (Online via Zoom) October 29, 2021 

 

Title IX Training Series: Part 2, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore by Eileen O’Hare –Anderson & Monica Espejo (Online via Zoom) November 5, 2021 

 

Title IX Training Series: Part 3, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore by Eileen O’Hare –Anderson & Monica Espejo (Online via Zoom) November 11, 2021

 

Raniyah Johnson (Deputy Title IX Coordinator for EVC and Investigator)

Title IX Training Series: Part 1, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore by Eileen O’Hare –Anderson & Monica Espejo (Online via Zoom) October 29, 2021 

 

Title IX Training Series: Part 2, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore by Eileen O’Hare –Anderson & Monica Espejo (Online via Zoom) November 5, 2021 

 

ATIXA Trainings: 

Civil Rights Investigator Certification Course- Level 2 (June 20-21, 2016)

Level 1 Title IX Coordinator Certification Training June 5-June 8, 2017

Civil Rights Investigator- Level 3 (September 24 & 25, 2018)

Level 2 Title IX Coordinator Certification (October 1-2, 2020)

Registered to attend: Violence Risk Assessment for Title IX

(November 5, 2020)

 

https://atixa.org/2020-regulations-requirement-posting-of-training-materials/    
 

Conferences Attended:

ATIXA West Coast Annual Conference- October 2019

ATIXA Annual Conference- October 2018

 

Lisa Owen (Title IX Investigator)

Title IX Training Series: Part 1, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore by Eileen O’Hare –Anderson & Monica Espejo (Online via Zoom) October 29, 2021 

 

Title IX Training Series: Part 2, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore by Eileen O’Hare –Anderson & Monica Espejo (Online via Zoom) November 5, 2021 

 

Title IX Training Series: Part 3, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore by Eileen O’Hare –Anderson & Monica Espejo (Online via Zoom) November 11, 2021

 

Trainings regarding New Title IX regulations via Zoom:

• May, 11, 2020 ATIXA New Regulations webinar
• May 11, 2020 ATIXA Zoom Live meeting Q & A New Regulations
• May 13, 2020 LCW New Regulations (10am-11:30am)
• May 18, 2020 ATIXA New Title IX Regulations Q & A Part 1
• May 22, 2020 ATIXA Sanctions for New Title IX Regulations
• June 5, 2020 ATIXA Informal Resolutions Under New Regulations
• June 10, 2020 LCW New Title IX Regulations
• June 17, 2020 AALRR Title IX New Regulations & What Higher Education Institutions Must Know before August 14, 2020  presented by Eve Fichtner & Stephen McLoughlin of Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Rudd & Romo
• July 24, 2020 ATIXA Managing & Training Advisors for New Regulations
• August 21, 2020 ATIXA Title IX OPEN Responses
• October 15-16, 2020 ATIXA 2020 Regulations Implementation Training

 

ATIXA Civil Rights Investigator Training prior to new Title IX regulations

• Level One: January 14 & 15, 2016 at University of San Francisco
• Level Two: September 29 & 30, 2016 at National University La Jolla, CA 
• Level Three: September 24 & 25, 2018 at Evergreen Valley College, San José, CA
• Level Four Due Process: July 25 & 26, 2018 at University of San Francisco 

ATIXA Coordinator Training

• Level 5: Bias & Cultural Competencies, February 25 & 26, 2021, via online zoom    
   

https://atixa.org/2020-regulations-requirement-posting-of-training-materials/    

NACUA Title IX Coordinator Training, completed August 13, 2015 (materials not available)     
 

Potential Hearing Officers for Title IX Hearings    
Antoinette Herrera    
Doriann Tran    
Edina Rutland    
Lynette Apen    
Rene Alvarez    
Robbie Kinkel    
Robert Gutierrez    
Sam Morgan    
Teresa Paiz

 

All potential Hearing Officers attended the following trainings

Title IX Training Series: Part 1, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore by Eileen O’Hare –Anderson & Monica Espejo (Online via Zoom) October 29, 2021 

 

Title IX Training Series: Part 2, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore by Eileen O’Hare –Anderson & Monica Espejo (Online via Zoom) November 5, 2021 

 

Title IX Training Series: Part 3, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore by Eileen O’Hare –Anderson & Monica Espejo (Online via Zoom) November 11, 2021