A House committee discovered LSU still has not written a mandatory reporting policy requiring employees to properly report Title Nine sexual misconduct cases or lose their jobs.
The discovery was made after Baton Rouge Representative Denise Marcelle questioned LSU Interim President Thomas Galligan.
MARCELLE: “Has LSU changed their policy themselves to make sure that if someone does not report that is required to report Title Nine that there is no gray area in the future of who should have done what and that person would automatically be fired. Has that policy been changed from an administrative perspective?”
GALLIGAN: “We have not written that policy but we have made clear to everyone going forward that if you do not comply with your requirement to report-“
MARCELLE: “So why haven’t we written it?”
GALLIGAN: “I think we only haven’t written it because we have been writing so much other stuff.”
Galligan then told lawmakers writing it would take about a day and that they would write it into policy.
New Orleans Representative Aimee Freeman pointed out the University of Louisiana System has already written and implemented that policy, so why hasn’t LSU?
“I know we have talked about that already and we already know that Dr. Henderson has a very valid policy in place so it seems to me that yall should have had time to look at his policy and bring it over,” said Freeman, who also has legislation pending that would establish a mandatory reporting policy at all state schools.
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