Congressman’s office has perfect response to anti-due process advocates

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In a response to an article about victims’ advocacy groups opposing a congressional bill that would promote more police involvement in campus sexual assault accusations, a spokesman for Rep. Matt Salmon, R-Ariz., provided the perfect summation of the current climate.

Salmon, the lead sponsor of the Safe Campus Act, has been arguing that police — not campus administrators — should be the ones handling accusations of felonies. Opponents of the bill claim it would have a chilling effect on reporting (more on the misinformation about this bill later).

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