Executive order criminalizes sexual harassment in the military

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden signed an govt order Wednesday that makes sexual harassment an offense beneath the Uniform Code of Army Justice.

The manager order additionally modifications the army’s response to home violence and the distribution of intimate visible photographs.

The order was referred to as on for by the I Am Vanessa Guillén Act within the 2022 Nationwide Protection Authorization Act.

Military Spc. Vanessa Guillén was 20 years previous when she died in 2020.

She was seen was stationed at Fort Hood in Texas, when she was final seen in a car parking zone on publish.

Her stays have been discovered close to Fort Hood two months after she disappeared.

Guillén’s household stated she had been sexually harassed a number of occasions at Fort Hood earlier than she died.

A part of the act included criminalizing sexual harassment and enhancing how officers reply to sexual misconduct instances.

The brand new regulation excludes commanders from being concerned in sexual harassment and sexual assault investigations.

A research by RAND estimated that one in each 16 ladies expertise sexual assault within the army.

The quantity is smaller amongst males – one in each 143.