{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://norton.house.gov/media/press-releases/norton-introduces-resolution-designate-september-national-campus-sexual-2", "Norton Introduces Resolution to Designate September as \u2018National Campus Sexual Assault Awareness Month\u2019", "2026-09-09", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "House", "DC", "Eleanor Holmes Norton", "N000147", "norton.house.gov", "norton", "https://norton.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 As students return to campus for the fall semester, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced her annual resolution to designate September as \u201cNational Campus Sexual Assault Awareness Month.\u201d\n\n\u201cSeptember is an appropriate time to focus the nation\u2019s attention on campus sexual assault as students return to college and begin a new academic year. Designating September as \u2018National Campus Sexual Assault Awareness Month\u2019 would give colleges and universities an important opportunity to strengthen prevention efforts, educate students about consent and sexual violence, and ensure that survivors know where they can turn for help and support,\u201d Norton said. \u201cNo student should have to choose between pursuing an education and feeling safe on campus.\u201d\n\nNorton has introduced this resolution for the past several years to highlight the problem of sexual assaults on campuses. In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein scandals and the #MeToo movement, Norton said her determination to continue to speak out has only grown, and that we must change behavior at the earliest stages of the lives of young men and women.\n\nThe resolution text follows.\n\nRESOLUTION\n\nExpressing support for the designation of September 2026 as National Campus Sexual Assault Awareness Month.\n\nWhereas freshmen and sophomores in college are at a greater risk of being sexually assaulted than juniors or seniors;\n\nWhereas college students are at a higher risk of sexual assault during the first few months of school, with more than 50 percent of college sexual assaults occurring in either August, September, October, or November;\n\nWhereas many college students are survivors of \u201cincapacitated assault\u201d, in which they are sexually assaulted while drugged, drunk, passed out, or otherwise incapacitated;\n\nWhereas these survivors often know their attackers;\n\nWhereas less than 12 percent of rapes and attempted rapes of college students are reported to campus authorities or local law enforcement;\n\nWhereas college sexual assault survivors are likely to tell someone they know, most often a friend, about their experience;\n\nWhereas 20 percent of college sexual assault survivors fear reprisal by the perpetrator;\n\nWhereas many college sexual assault survivors fear poor treatment by campus or law enforcement authorities, or even lack knowledge of the reporting process;\n\nWhereas 10 percent of colleges still do not allow confidential reporting of sexual assaults to campus authorities;\n\nWhereas 22 percent of colleges provide no sexual assault response training for members of their faculty and staff;\n\nWhereas 41 percent of colleges have not conducted a single sexual assault investigation in the last 5 years;\n\nWhereas most colleges fail to provide access to a specially trained Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner;\n\nWhereas law enforcement officials at 30 percent of colleges receive no training on how to respond to reports of sexual violence;\n\nWhereas more than 70 percent of colleges do not have protocols regarding how the institution and local law enforcement should work together to respond to sexual violence;\n\nWhereas 33 percent of colleges fail to provide training to dispel \u201crape myths\u201d to persons adjudicating sexual assault claims;\n\nWhereas 43 percent of the Nation\u2019s largest colleges have students assisting in adjudicating sexual assault cases, which creates privacy and conflict-of-interest concerns;\n\nWhereas 22 percent of colleges allow athletic department oversight of sexual violence cases involving student athletes;\n\nWhereas many college sexual assault survivors experience confusion over how to report a sexual assault, are unsure of acceptable standards of sexual conduct and definitions of rape and sexual assault, and fear punishment for activities preceding some sexual assaults, such as underage drinking;\n\nWhereas 21 percent of the Nation\u2019s largest private colleges report not independently investigating all claims of sexual assault that they conveyed to the Department of Education;\n\nWhereas only 10 to 25 percent of the perpetrators of college sexual assaults are permanently expelled;\n\nWhereas less than 7 percent of reported college rape cases result in criminal charges against the perpetrator;\n\nWhereas survivors of campus sexual assaults are more likely to have their lives disrupted, such as by changing a college major, changing campus housing, and dropping a class, than the average student;\n\nWhereas 7 States require colleges to adopt affirmative consent policies; and\n\nWhereas September 2026, when many students begin or return to college, is an appropriate month to designate as National Campus Sexual Assault Awareness Month: Now, therefore, be it\n\nResolved, That the House of Representatives supports the designation of National Campus Sexual Assault Awareness Month.\n\n###", 1, "2026-09-10T09:25:58Z", "2026-09-10T09:27:09Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://norton.house.gov/media/press-releases/norton-introduces-resolution-designate-september-national-campus-sexual-2"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.04049826040864, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}