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This sounds like another attempt at a “Hyde Park List.”

Vivian Nunez at the liberal student organization Generation Progress, noting that research suggests most reported campus sexual assaults are by serial offenders, wants to start keeping tabs on any student accused of sexual assault:

The benefits of keeping a record of alleged attackers, even if it’s internally and information that is only made available to survivors of sexual assault, could help curb the rise of alleged serial attackers, or of individuals who would then go on to perform another crime.

Such a repository of information about students who have been accused of attacks – but not found guilty – could be an attractive target for hackers, but Nunez doesn’t address security.

Nunez says there’s already a nonprofit doing something similar:

Cal[l]isto, an initiative by Sexual Health Innovations, hopes to create the same digital system on a college level. Overall, Callisto hopes to facilitate reporting any instance of sexual assault through this online platform. The platform will postdate all documents and provide clear explanations of next steps that can be taken.

But, most importantly in regards to repeat offenders, Cal[l]isto has an option prompting those who, “don’t want to submit it unless another report names the same assailant—in other words, if it turns out that their rapist is raping other men or women on campus.”

Read the Generation Progress post.

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