3. Every institution shall train all new students, whether first-year, or transfer, undergraduate, graduate, or professional. 4. Every institution shall use multiple methods to educate students about violence prevention and shall share information on domestic violence, dating violence, stalking and sexual assault prevention with parents of enrolling students. 5. Every institution shall offer to all students general and specific training in domestic violence, dating violence, stalking and sexual assault prevention and shall conduct a campaign that complies with the Violence Against Women Act, 20 U.S.C. 1092(f), to educate the student population. They shall, as appropriate, provide or expand specific training to include group such as international students, student that are also employees, leaders and officers of registered or recognized student organizations, and online and distance education students. They shall also provide specific training to members of groups that the institution identifies as high-risk populations. 6. Every institution shall require that each student leader and officer of student organizations recognized by or registered with the institution, as well as those seeking recognition by the institution, complete training on domestic violence, dating violence, stalking or sexual assault prevention prior to receiving recognition or registration, and each institution shall require that each student athlete complete training on domestic violence, dating violence, stalking or sexual assault prevention prior to participating in intercollegiate athletic competition. 7. Every institution must regularly assess programs and policies established pursuant to this article to determine effectiveness and relevance for students. 8. XII. PRIVACY LEGAL CHALLENGES – § 6448 Pursuant to subdivision (i) of rule three thousand sixteen of the civil practice law and rules, in any proceeding brought against an institution which seeks to vacate or modify a finding that a student was responsible for violating an institution’s rules regarding a violation covered by this article, the name and identifying biographical information of any student shall be presumptively confidential and shall not be included in the pleadings and other papers from such proceeding absent a waiver or cause shown as determined by the court. Such witnesses shall be identified only as numbered witnesses. If such a name or identifying biographical information appears in a pleading or paper filed in such a proceeding, the court, absent such a waiver or cause shown, shall direct the clerk of the court to redact such name and identifying biographical information and so advise the parties. XIII. REPORTING AGGREGATE DATA TO THE DEPARTMENT – § 6449 1. Institutions shall annually report to the department the following information about reports of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking and sexual assault; b. The number of such incidents that were reported to the Title IX Coordinator. c. Of those incidents in paragraph a of this subdivision, the number of reporting individuals who sought the institution’s judicial or conduct process. d. Of those reporting individuals in paragraph b of this subdivision, the number of cases processed through the institution’s judicial or conduct process. e. Of those cases in paragraph c of this subdivision, the number of respondents who were found responsible through the institution’s judicial or conduct process. f. Of those cases in paragraph c of this subdivision, the number of respondents who were found not responsible through the institution’s judicial or conduct process. g. A description of the final sanctions imposed by the institution for each incident for which a respondent was found responsible, as provided in paragraph d of this subdivision, through the institution’s judicial or conduct process. h. The number of cases in the institution’s judicial or conduct process that were closed prior to a final determination after the respondent withdrew from the institution and declined to complete the disciplinary process. i. The number of cases in the institution’s judicial or conduct process that were closed because the complaint was withdrawn by the reporting individual prior to a final determination. 2. The department shall create a reporting mechanism for institutions to efficiently and uniformly provide the information outlined in subdivision one of this section.
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