Sec. 7. Training for campus personnel on victim-centered trauma-informed interview techniques
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Section 304 of the Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 ( 42 U.S.C. 14045b ) is amended— in subsection (a)(2), by striking $300,000 and inserting $500,000 ; in subsection (b), by adding at the end the following; To train campus personnel in how to use victim-centered, trauma-informed interview techniques. ; and in subsection (g)— by striking In this section and inserting
(1); and In general .—In this section by adding at the end the following; In this section, the term ‘victim-centered, trauma-informed interview techniques’ means asking questions of a student or employee who reports that the student or employee has been a victim of sexual harassment, sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking, in a manner that is focused on the experience of the victim, that does not judge or blame the reporting student or employee for the alleged assault, and that is informed by evidence-based research on the neurobiology of trauma. The victim shall be given the option to have the interview recorded and to receive a copy of the recorded interview. .
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