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Neena Chaudhry, director of education and senior counsel at the National Women’s Law Center, said that while schools have to protect confidentiality during the hearing process, they walk a fine line by instituting agreements because of the non-disclosure ban.
“There is concern that survivors of sexual assault are being silenced,” she said, noting that a number of schools have similar confidentiality agreements. “Requiring students to sign such agreements can have a chilling effect in terms of their ability to speak out about their experiences and problems they’ve faced in the way their schools have handled sexual assault.”
