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The District’s sexual harassment policy and rule can be found by searching for the policies on BoardDocs or by contacting the District’s Title IX Coordinator.

•  Board Policy 411.11, Sexual Harassment and Sexual Violence (to view the policy, please visit BoardDocs and search for the policy)
•  Board Rule 411.11, Sexual Harassment and Sexual Violence Complaint Procedures (to view the policy, please visit BoardDocs and search for the policy)

Any person (including a person who is not claiming to have been personally harmed/victimized by the alleged discrimination) may report a concern or allegation regarding prohibited sex discrimination (including sexual harassment) to the District.  Such reports may be submitted as follows:
1. In person, by mail, by telephone, by electronic mail, or through an online portal or webpage provided for this purpose (where available) to the District’s Title IX Coordinator using the contact information for the District’s Title IX Coordinator as listed above. 
2. In person reports should be made when the Title IX Coordinator is reasonably available during regular working hours.  Reports submitted by telephone, mail, electronic mail, or through an online portal or webpage (where available) may be made at any time. 
3. By reporting the alleged sexual harassment to any District employee who shall be responsible for forwarding the complaint to the District’s Title IX Coordinator for review and action as necessary. 
4. By any other means that results in the Title IX Coordinator actually receiving the person’s verbal or written report.

District Response to Reports and Complaints of Sex Discrimination and to Formal Complaints of Sexual Harassment under Title IX – The District has established grievance procedures through which the District structures its response to reports that allege unlawful discrimination on the basis of sex in any education program or activity of the District.  Those procedures are set forth in Rule 411-Rule (1)  and Rule 511, as published on the District’s website.  The purpose of such procedures is to provide for the prompt and equitable resolution of any report or complaint of alleged sex discrimination, excluding formal complaints of sexual harassment under Title IX (which are subject to a different process). 

Any time that the District has actual knowledge of sexual harassment or allegations of sexual harassment that could constitute a violation of Title IX, the District has obligations to respond to such knowledge in a manner that is not deliberately indifferent and in a manner that treats the alleged victim(s) of sexual harassment and the alleged perpetrator(s) of sexual harassment equitably. Such a response includes, but is not limited to, offering supportive measures to a complainant and investigating and resolving any formal complaint that presents allegations of Title IX sexual harassment using the formal grievance process that the District has adopted for such formal complaints.  District procedures for responding to alleged sexual harassment under Title IX, including the formal grievance process, are set forth in Rule 411.11, as published on the District’s website.