Law / United States / 
Maine
Institutions of higher education: confidentiality of sexual violence, intimate partner violence and stalking reports and protection of climate survey information
20-A M.R.S. secs. 12982, 12985
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Access restriction, Prohibition
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- 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)).
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What record it asks for
Logging duty
Section 12982 makes the identities of the parties and information about an incident confidential and section 12985 protects survey information. Neither names a log or register that must be kept, so no logging duty is coded.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
An institution of higher education under chapter 445 of title 20-A of the Maine Revised Statutes is a public, private, nonprofit or for-profit postsecondary school chartered, incorporated or otherwise organized in the State with an established physical presence in the State.
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 are confidential and may not be disclosed by the institution except as necessary to carry out a disciplinary process or as otherwise permitted under state or federal law. The interpersonal violence climate survey must be designed to collect anonymous responses and may not publicly disclose any personally identifying information.
An institution of higher education may not use or attempt to use information collected through the interpersonal violence climate survey to identify or contact any individual student on campus. Each institution must submit a summary of the survey results and the supporting aggregate data to the commissioner with any personally identifiable information removed or redacted, and must post the results on its publicly accessible website in a way that does not personally identify any student.
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