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Air Force Academy issues new sex policies. (Newswatch).
Rocked by a sexual assault scandal that involved at least 56 female cadets reporting rapes, the Air Force Academy released a new policy in June that creates a team to handle sexual assault cases. But it fails to guarantee the confidentiality of those lodging complaints.
Information from the complaints will be disclosed on a need-to-know basis, according to the school's new commandant of cadets, Brig. Gen. John A. Weida. Earlier Air Force Secretary James Roche had promised to protect the privacy of cadets reporting sexual assaults, who have been disciplined and ostracized for reporting the assaults.
Not good enough, replied critics like Can Davis, who is executive director of the Colorado Springs based rape crisis center TESSA, which has counseled 38 cadets over the past 12 years. Many cadets would not want their chain-of-command officers or others to know of the complaints, she said, according to an Associated Press report in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on June 7, 2003.
In a June 15 investigative report, the Denver Post revealed that for more than two decades the Air Force Academy review board failed to aggressively pursue allegations of sexual misconduct at the school. Members of the board included members of Congress, friends of Presidents, executives of Fortune 500 companies and other politicians.
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