State Representative Beth Griffin is hailing legislation designed to protect young people from sexual assault at Michigan schools. The plan, which was drafted in response to the ongoing Larry Nassar scandal at Michigan State University, would establish a mandatory reporting requirement for K-12 and post-secondary coaches and athletic trainers for criminal sexual conduct offenses. It would also prohibit anyone from using their position of authority to prevent someone from reporting a crime, including criminal sexual conduct, and add sexual abuse to the state of Michigan’s OK2Say tipline program. That way, someone could report a sex crime anonymously via the student service. Representative Griffin, a Republican from Mattawan, tells us the “scandal at Michigan State University is a lesson that we must give victims of this kind of illegal behavior multiple ways to report it.” The legislation is now before the state House Law and Justice Committee.
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