Families Advocating for Campus Equality

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Families Advocating for Campus Equality (FACE) is an American non-profit organization whose stated goal is to ensure fairness and due process for all parties involved in allegations of sexual misconduct on college campuses. FACE was started by Sherry Warner Seefeld and two other mothers who say their sons were falsely accused of sexual misconduct on college campuses.[1]

Seefeld's son, Caleb Warner, was accused in January 2010 of sexually assaulting a fellow University of North Dakota student.[2] He was initially suspended from the university, but the sanction was later lifted after no criminal charges were filed against Warner, and his accuser was charged with making a false report to law enforcement, with a warrant being issued for her arrest.[3][4] Seefeld says, "It’s pretty hard to say, ‘Well, you know, some people are falsely accused,’ because immediately, you are accused of being a rape apologist, it is assumed that your son is a rapist and you’re lying for him."[1][5]

Seefeld, who acts as president of the organization, acknowledges the problem of sexual assault on college campuses, but says "it can’t be solved by creating more victims. Even if a small percentage of rape reports are given falsely, it’s not OK to throw away one person’s life".[1] Seefeld says her organization provides a "support network" for the accused and their families.[6] North Dakota has considered a bill to permit students accused of misconduct to hire their own lawyer.[7]

In 2015, FACE criticized Senator Kirsten Gillibrand for inviting Emma Sulkowicz to the State of the Union Address, saying such an honor was "undeserved and violates the principles of confidentiality and gender equality of Title IX, the law that oversees sexual misconduct on campus" noting that "Sulkowicz failed to establish any wrongdoing by the student she accused after a tribunal, and an appeal at Columbia, as well as an investigation by the New York Police Department."[8]

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