Riviera ISD’s Title IX Compliance team works to ensure equal educational opportunity for all Riviera ISD students and to prevent, detect, and appropriately respond to reports of sex discrimination or sexual harassment in the District’s education programs and activities.

To obtain assistance related to the District’s compliance with Title IX, you may contact the Title IX Coordinator at the address, phone number, or email listed below.

You may also make a report about sex discrimination including sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence, or stalking, by contacting the Title IX Coordinator in person, by mail, by phone, or by email at the contact information provided below.

Inquiries about the application of Title IX to Riviera ISD’s education programs or activities may be referred to the District’s Title IX Coordinator, the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights of the Department of Education or both.

Riviera ISD prohibits discrimination, including harassment, against any student or employee on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, or any other basis prohibited by law.

In accordance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Riviera ISD does not and is required not to discriminate on the basis of sex in its education programs or activities. The requirement not to discriminate on the basis of sex extends to the admission of students in the District’s education programs or activities and to applicants for employment.

In accordance with Title IX and its implementing regulations, Riviera ISD’s Board of Trustees has adopted Board policies regarding responding to formal complaints of sexual harassment. A copy of the policy can be found here, Policy Code FFH – Student Welfare: Freedom from Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation – Riviera ISD Board Policy Manual - Policy Online (FFH (Local)) and the legally-referenced policy can be found here Policy Code FFH – Student Welfare: Freedom from Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation – Riviera ISD Board Policy Manual - Policy Online (FFH (Legal)).

Any person may report sex discrimination, including sexual harassment (whether or not the person reporting is the person alleged to be the victim of conduct that could constitute sex discrimination or sexual harassment), in person, by mail, by telephone, or by electronic mail, using the contact information listed for the Title IX Coordinator, or by any other means that results in the Title IX Coordinator receiving the person’s verbal or written report. Such a report may be made at any time (including during non-business hours) by using the telephone number or electronic mail address, or by mail to the office address, listed for the Title IX Coordinator.

What is Title IX?

Title IX is a federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.

How can I report prohibited conduct?

Reports can be made orally or in writing to a teacher, counselor, principal, or other District employee. Students and parents are also encouraged to make a report directly to Riviera ISD’s Title IX Coordinator. The sooner a report is made, the better; but a report may be made at any time (including during non-business hours).

Students and parents are encouraged to include as much information as possible in the report so that Riviera ISD’s Title IX Coordinator may thoroughly and properly respond.

How to file a formal Title IX Complaint

Filing a formal complaint, not just a report, will help ensure a Title IX investigation takes place. To file a formal Title IX complaint of sexual assault, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and gender-based violence and/or harassment, please download the form and submit it to the Title IX Coordinator or principal.

You may:

1.       Mail the form;

2.      Deliver it in person; or

3.      Scan and email it.

What are examples of prohibited conduct under Title IX?

·         Sexual assault and abuse

·         Unwelcome sexual advances

·         Requests for sexual favors

·         Sexually motivated physical, verbal, or nonverbal conduct (even electronically or online)

·         Harassment based on gender, sex stereotypes, and sex characteristics

Title IX also prohibits retaliation against students who report sexual harassment, sexual assault, abuse, or other gender-based violence, or who participate in Title IX investigations or RISD’s grievance procedures as a witness or a party.

Who does Title IX protect?

Title IX protects individuals who are participating in or attempting to participate in the school’s educational programs or activities. This can include students, employees, parents, guardians, school visitors, and applicants.

Where do Title IX protections apply?

Title IX applies in all Riviera ISD’s educational programs and activities. This includes school sponsored-activities, school-recognized activities, and travel for school purposes that occurs away from the campus.

What are supportive measures?

Title IX requires Riviera ISD to provide free non-disciplinary, non-punitive supportive measures to all students involved in conduct which implicates Title IX. Examples include counseling, voluntary changes in class schedules, schedules for use of common spaces, increased security and monitoring, and mutual no-contact or stay away orders.