Online Sexual Harassment and/or Retaliation

The policies of the Institution are written and interpreted broadly to include online manifestations of any of the behaviors prohibited below, when those behaviors occur in or have an effect on the Institution’s education program and activities or use the Institution’s networks, technology, or equipment.

Although the Institution may not control websites, social media, and other venues in which harassing communications are made, when such communications are reported to Gallaudet or the Clerc Center, it will engage in a variety of means to address and mitigate the effects. 

Members of the community are encouraged to be good digital citizens and to refrain from online misconduct, such as sharing inappropriate content via social media, unwelcome sexual or sex-based messaging, distributing or threatening to distribute revenge pornography, breaches of privacy, or otherwise using the ease of transmission and/or anonymity of the Internet or other technology to harm another member of the Gallaudet or the Clerc Center community.