You bring up great points. I want to know the Title IX office’s responsibility to contact external law enforcement after they have concluded the football player was guilty. I would think they have a responsibility to report to the county DA, but who knows. I don’t really know the mechanizations behind all of this. I just found the story to be rather interesting, particularly the fact they reduced his punishment without law enforcement involvement.
The story - as is often the case - really doesn't answer questions or provide facts. So any specific "conclusions" regarding this case, that we would try to make, would be premature and misguided.
For example:
I would doubt very much that the Title IX office "found the accused to be guilty" of rape. They really can't do that anyway. They are not "law enforcement" or the "judiciary"
Not knowing the specific facts in this case, what I would be completely confident in saying:
Generally Title IX offices often GROSSLY overstep their competency. Which, in most cases, is easy to do. They rarely have any competency in these matters - nor any accountability, which is also a tragedy.
They are generally administrative apparatchiks - often times imparting their ideological biases - but certainly are not competent wrt investigations/criminal matters/legal procedures etc)
They do, regularly, enforce specific "University Codes and Policies" - which is a very different thing from criminal investigations or conclusions, of course, and can do a lot of damage, but very little good.
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