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20-A M.R.S. secs. 12982, 12985 · Read the law's page

• If you are an institution of higher education in Maine, keep the identity of a reporting party and a responding party, and all information relating to an incident of sexual violence, intimate partner violence or stalking, confidential, and disclose it only as necessary to carry out a disciplinary process or as state or federal law otherwise permits (20-A M.R.S. 12982(5)).
• Design the interpersonal violence climate survey to collect anonymous responses, and do not publicly disclose any personally identifying information from it (20-A M.R.S. 12985(4)).
• Do not use or attempt to use information collected through the interpersonal violence climate survey to identify or contact any individual student on campus, or as the basis for any investigation or disciplinary or legal proceeding (20-A M.R.S. 12985(4)).
• Do not add campus-specific survey questions that require the disclosure of any personally identifiable information, and remove or redact personally identifiable information from the survey summary and aggregate data you submit to the commissioner and post on your website, so that no student is personally identified (20-A M.R.S. 12985(1), (2)).