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Attorney General Wants Bill Signed on Campus Sexual Assault

NPR Illinois | 91.9 UIS | By Maureen Foertsch McKinney
Published June 8, 2015 at 10:19 AM CDT
Office of the Attorney General

Attorney General Lisa Madigan pushed legislation calling for new policies to handle sexual assault cases on Illinois campuses. The bill was approved by both Houses in late May.

The Department of Education last year released names of dozens of schools under investigation for poor handling of sexual assault cases. Two of those were in Illinois: the University of Chicago and Knox College in Galesburg. The legislation involved requiring new policies, confidential advisers, a fair process for dealing with allegations of sexual assault  — and a plan to train students and employees to improve  handling of sexual assault cases

    
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Maureen Foertsch McKinney
Maureen Foertsch McKinney is news editor and equity and justice beat reporter for NPR Illinois, where she has been on the staff since 2014 after Illinois Issues magazine’s merger with the station. She joined the magazine’s staff in 1998 as projects editor and became managing editor in 2003. Prior to coming to the University of Illinois Springfield, she was an education reporter and copy editor at three local newspapers, including the suburban Chicago Daily Herald, She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Eastern Illinois University and a master’s degree in English from UIS.
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