new info from Kat M

A WAC member met with Lenny Sancilio a couple weeks ago and this is the information she gathered:

"1. The campus counciling center will NOT tell the cops if a rape is reported to them. They will send the cops a notice that something happened, and will only contact the police if the victim expressly asks for it. Then the police will get a report of their own from the victim.

2. As far as what the campus' judicial action is concerned, Geneseo will only take certain steps for certain things on campus, mostly academic I think. The camous doesn't want to interfere with any police action that will be taken. Most of the action will probably take place after the police have dealt with the case.

3. The Dean of Students and I went over a quick senario of what would happen when the victim reported the incident. If it was first reported to an RA, their first priority is to make sure the student is safe, and then advice them, or ask them, if they would like to go to the counciling health center. The incident will immediately be reported to the RD, or if it is very late at night, whatever RD is on call. The University Police will be contacted, and statements and "evidence" will be collected. A rape kit should be administered at the hospital, although when I asked him about how the student would get to the hostipal, he said he wasn't totally sure (maybe by an ambulance or police). The police statements are later referred to the D.A. The campus meets with the victim and discusses their options. They can: do nothing, go through the police courts, go through the campus, or go through both. The campus' main goals are the protection of the victims privacy, and to give them back control. The victim has a number of people they can talk to, like the Counciling center, anyone at the health center, Dean Tamra, the police, the D.A. victims advocate, who works closely with the police. The police situation gets a little complicated, because there are four separate police forces in the near vicinity, so it depends where the incident took place. "