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Professor Drobac Says Indiana's Proposed Sexual Harassment Guidelines Lacking, Inconsistent
11/16/2018
A subcommittee of the Indiana General Assembly's Legislative Council was put together to write guidelines to combat sexual harassment. IU McKinney Professor Jennifer Drobac reviewed the guidelines at the request of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news outlet staffed by journalism students at Franklin College. She called the guidelines "shockingly dated" and designed to insulate lawmakers from liability in a story the site published November 15.
“The proposal is grossly under-inclusive and arguably a waste of time and resources since the legislature could easily just affirm that all of its state employees, contractors, members, unpaid workers, interns, etc. are subject to federal and state law,” Professor Drobac said in the piece.
Professor Drobac is the R. Bruce Townsend Professor of Law at IU McKinney, and a well-known expert on sexual harassment law. She has talked with journalists nationwide and internationally about the MeToo movement. Her most recent book, Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers: Adolescent Development, Discrimination, and Consent Law, was published in 2016 by University of Chicago Press. Her forthcoming book, The Myth of Consent, which she is writing with Professor Oliver Goodenough, will explore the neuroscience of adult decision making and how the science should influence law reform.
