Government website outages prevent comments on sexual assault Title IX rule changes

The fight to reform sexual assault policies on campus is facing a maddeningly bureaucratic hurdle. 

On the final day during which citizens could share comments with the Department of Education about its proposed changes to Title IX protections for sexual assault victims, the government website went down.

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Starting at 10 am ET, comment submissions sections on regulations.gov and federalregister.gov were inoperable for "a few hours" Wednesday morning, and have been "finicky" since, according to organizers. 

🚨Today’s the last day to submit comments on Betsy DeVos’ dangerous proposed Title IX changes, but the @UsEdGov site is 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧. This is unacceptable — @KLMarcusOCR, @BenjaminEW, @MHackman, this needs to be fixed IMMEDIATELY. #HandsOffIX pic.twitter.com/oVYmcXrn2W

— NWLC (@nwlc) January 30, 2019 Read more...

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