Bias Response Team Documents

Requester: 
Steinbaugh, Adam
Organization: 
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
Initial Request Date: 
03/15/2016
Status: 
Records Provided
Request Completion Date: 
12/09/2016

Please provide any documents3 (including electronic documents and emails) within
the following categories:
1. Current policies, guides, manuals, presentation materials, or training materials
provided exclusively to the Bias Response Team, or to Bias Response Team
Advocates.
2. Policies, guides, manuals, presentation materials, or training materials used by
the Bias Response Team in connection with training other organizations or
campus constituents during the Fall 2015 to Spring 2016 semesters.
Additionally, any materials prepared for the following trainings or
presentations:
a. Facilitated listening session between students and faculty, Dept. of
Planning, Public Policy, and Management (April 10, 2015)
b. Gender identity/expression, Student Leader Dining Course (May 6,
2015)
c. Bystander Intervention Training to Fraternity and Sorority Life
Presidents (Jan. 24, 2015)
d. Bystander Intervention Training, BRT Lunch "How to Respond to Bias"
(J an 8. 2015)
e. Bystander Intervention Training, BRT Lunch "Bias at UO: What is it and
how can I address it?" (Mar. 9, 2015)
3. Any statistics, annual reports (or other periodic reports), or synopses of
complaints, incidents, or responses concerning the Bias Response Team or bias
incidents.
4. Any emails sent or received by the Bias Response Team or its members which
include the words "First Amendment", "1st Amendment", or "free speech."
5. The email described as the Bias Response Team's collaboration "with Division
for Student Life to send an email about biased costumes prior to Halloween."
6. Each report highlighted in yellow on the attached document.
7. For any such report highlighted in (6), any documents constituting
correspondence sent to or received from any complainant, witness, or subject of the matter, which document is held or controlled by any member of the Bias
Response Team.
8. For any report filed during or after the commencement of the Fall 2015
semester, all reports which concern or involve the following subjects, any
documents relating to efforts by the Bias Response Team in response to the
report, including (but not limited to) any documents describing or otherwise
relating to any investigation into the circumstances or substance of the report:
a. Faculty members;
b. Classrooms (i. e., speech or conduct in a classroom);
c. Student media (e.g., newspaper, radio, etc.);
d. Online media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Yik Yak, email, blogs, etc.);
e. Student organizations.