The University of Kansas faces a second lawsuit condemning the school’s training and handling of sexual assault.
Daisy Tackett, a former member of the KU rowing team, is seeking “compensation and redress” under TItle IX, a federal law that prohibits gender discrimination and mandates the investigation of sexual assaults. The lawsuit, which is available publicly online, was filed Monday in Douglas County District Court.
“KU failed to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual assaults from occurring at Jayhawk Towers, including failing to train employees properly on preventing, investigating and punishing sexual assaults on campus, and failing to adopt and implement simple, reasonable policies that would lessen the chance of rapes occurring, harassment occurring, or retaliation from occurring,” the lawsuit reads.