§51325 Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Prevention Information Management System

Summary

The Maritime Administrator must build an information system in the Academy’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Program by January 1, 2023. The system will track reportable incidents involving cadets so patterns can be seen. It will record counts per fiscal year, where incidents happened (including ship and company when relevant), the job title of people involved, a simple description and any reports, how each case was looked into, and whether the investigation found the claim to be true. The system must include past data the Administrator already has, not just data collected after January 1, 2023. It must be kept secure, leave out personal identifiers when possible, and keep only the facts needed for statistics. If a final agency action or court ruling clears someone, the system must remove that person’s identifying information from the record. Ninety days after the system goes live, the Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General must start a cybersecurity audit and send the results to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. The Administrator must also provide confidential exit interviews, in person or online, for midshipmen after Sea Year. These interviews must be done by staff who did not assign students to ships and occur after the midshipmen finish the required survey. Data from the system and the exit interviews must be used to guide new or changed policies and rules about sexual harassment, dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking.