Two former college students at Fairview Excessive Faculty have agreed to settle a federal sexual harassment lawsuit in opposition to the Boulder Valley Faculty District, in keeping with court docket data.
The 2 former college students sued the college district in 2021 and alleged that Fairview Excessive Faculty officers knew throughout the 2016-2017 college yr {that a} student-athlete was accused of raping not less than two different college students, however failed to analyze and did nothing to guard college students from going through a hostile atmosphere on the college.
The lawsuit claimed college officers at Fairview fostered an atmosphere permissive of sexual misconduct. The previous college students introduced the Title IX declare amid a broader reckoning over the highschool’s tradition and a number of sexual assault and harassment allegations.
Title IX is a federal legislation that prohibits discrimination on the premise of intercourse and requires faculties that obtain federal funding to analyze and treatment hostile academic environments, amongst different obligations.
Whereas the previous college students and faculty district have agreed to settle the case, the settlement has not been finalized and the main points of the phrases will not be but public. Each side have till Oct. 31 to finalize the settlement, in keeping with court docket data.
An legal professional for the previous college students, John Clune, declined to debate the case intimately till the settlement is finalized. Boulder Valley Faculty District spokesman Randy Barber confirmed “that an settlement has been reached in precept.”
“For the reason that settlement presently stays in draft kind, BVSD can’t present additional remark right now,” he mentioned in an e-mail.
In February, months after the lawsuit was filed, the student-athlete on the middle of the lawsuit, a former lacrosse participant, was sentenced to 90 days in jail for sexually assaulting three younger girls whereas he was a pupil at Fairview Excessive Faculty.
JHB will not be naming the previous lacrosse participant as a result of he was a minor on the time of the crimes and was charged in juvenile court docket. JHB additionally doesn’t identify survivors of sexual assault.