§51325 Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Prevention Information Management System

Summary

By January 1, 2023, the Maritime Administrator must create an information system inside the Academy’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Program to track reports and claims about cadets. The system must record yearly totals and, when available, where incidents happened (including vessel and operator), the job or position of people involved, a simple description and any reports, what kind of inquiry was done, and whether the claim was found to be true. The system must include relevant older data the Administrator already has, not just data from 2023 on. The Maritime Administrator and the Department of Transportation Chief Information Officer must make the system secure and protect privacy. It must avoid keeping personally identifiable information and store only the data needed for statistics. Ninety days after the system starts, the DOT Office of Inspector General must audit its cybersecurity and send the results to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. If a final agency action or final judgment clears someone, their personal information must be removed from the report. The Administrator must also provide confidential in-person and virtual exit interviews for midshipmen after Sea Year, and the data from the system and interviews must be used to guide policy changes on sexual harassment, dating and domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking.