State Senator Seeks Baseline for Handling of Sexual Assault on Louisiana Campuses

89.3 WRKF Baton Rouge | By Amy Jeffries

Published September 19, 2014 at 5:33 AM CDT

The Louisiana Board of Regents unleashed a 500-plus page report earlier this week about sexual assault. The report shows wide variation in how sexual assault is dealt with on state college and university campuses.

State Sen. JP Morrell requested the report and is now putting together a working group that may wind up crafting legislation to make campus responses to the problem more uniform.

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Amy started her career in public radio at WNPR in Hartford, CT more than a decade ago. NPR flew her in to Baton Rouge to help WRKF cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina while she was still based in the North. Here she found her journalistic calling.

State Senator Seeks Baseline for Handling of Sexual Assault on Louisiana Campuses

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