Bill Passed in the House on Sexual Assault In the Coast Guard; on Cruise Ships, Change Happens: The SAFER Blog

The government works in dark ways. For exemplar, you wouldn’t dream up that the Coast Guard Authorization Bill of 2010 has a unscathed countless to do with sensual molestation. But you, like me, would be oddly illegal.
The reprisal, HR 3619, was passed in the House on October 23 (votes: 385 to 11), and is at times on the Senate’s legislative weekly. The reprisal authorizes the Coast Guard’s $10 billion 2010 (fiscal year) budget, and two thirds of the budget whim reportedly agree to “financ[ing] consideration missions such as searches and rescues, combating benumb smugglers and defending the U.S. ports to do a wiser move up of preventing or responding to sensual assaults on passengers. littoral against terrorists.” The reprisal also “increases Coast Guard personnel tight-fisted 1,500 positions to a to of 47,000.”
But there is another report here:
The reprisal would notice the 125 to 150 voyage ships that spike into U.S.

Cruise operators would be required to check into avowed crimes to the FBI and Coast Guard, promulgate lawlessness statistics online, give someone an idea of procedures to the boards set free victims and deceive at least identical band fellow trained to consider lawlessness scenes.
Interesting, to be just?! It gets wiser: there are as a business of points two parts of the reprisal that bargain deviant later on with sensual molestation. The at the start is in sec.

Title IX of the reprisal, (sec. 219 which refers to sensual assaults involving members of the Coast Guard-the reprisal would order that (much like the Clery Act requires of colleges and universities) each year the Coast Guard submit a check into to a handful of congressional committees on the handful of sensual assaults committed tight-fisted and against CG members; the disciplinary actions that were taken; and a lay out as a replacement for barring and recurrence activities that whim chance in the following year. 901 to 904), referred to as the “Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act of 2009,” covers the voyage passenger liner requirements quoted over and above. This element starts improbable with the following findings (emphasis mine):
(2) In 2007 barely, superficially 12,000,000 passengers were projected to suppose a voyage worldwide.
(3) Passengers on voyage vessels deceive an hard to come by compensation of their developing vulnerability to lawlessness while on oodles voyages, and those who may be victimized necessity the data they essential to be told their forensic rights or to thetical whom to communicate in to as a replacement for escape in the compelling aftermath of the lawlessness.

(5) Over the go the distance 5 years, sensual molestation and concrete assaults on voyage vessels were the peerless crimes investigated tight-fisted the Federal Bureau of Investigation with suppose into account to voyage ship incidents.
(4) Sexual distort, the disappearance of passengers from vessels on the high-frequency seas, and other humourless crimes deceive occurred during self-indulgence cruises.
(6) These crimes at Neptune’s can embody attacks both tight-fisted passengers and band members on other passengers and band members.

(7) Except as a replacement for United States flagged vessels, or alien flagged vessels operating in an seat dominate to the unequivocal clutches of the United States, there are no Federal statutes or regulations that explicitly order voyage lines to check into avowed crimes to United States Government officials.
(8) It is not known scrupulously how again crimes chance on voyage vessels or specifically how myriad people deceive disappeared during oodles voyages because voyage the boards set up companies do not be comprised of c hatch covering, crime-related statistics to be just away introduce to the apparent. On superior of requirements here reporting and having medical help equipped to form of survivors of molestation, the reprisal requires that the medical help keep confidentiality and that people who deceive been assaulted deceive access to encoded phone and internet amenities to communicate in to law enforcement, forensic, or counseling services.
I speculate it’s not foul that molestation is a commonly-investigated lawlessness on voyage ships, (now that I dream up here it, it’s nature of like being in a college dorm) but it’s certainly not something I’ve considered much and it’s musical eats to get the drift that our government is attempting to do something here it. AND ships whim be required to deceive on mawkish “in-date supplies of anti-retroviral medications and other medications designed to block sexually transmitted diseases after a sensual molestation.”
So three cheers as a replacement for the House of Reps, this is method equiponderance! I stupefaction if some folks in the Senate are effective to rumble this to be “politically motivated” as skilfully..
The complete momentous part of the reprisal is after the lessen, and can be found here.
[One more impatient note: the reprisal also establishes a minority recruiting program as a replacement for the Coast Guard, including a course of action as a replacement for congressional nominations to grow the amount of ethnological and geographic miscellany at the Coast Guard's academy; the academy currently serves 1000 cadets, at best 25 of whom are clouded.]
SEC.

REPORT ON SEXUAL ASSAULTS IN THE COAST GUARD. 219.
(a) In General- Not later than January 15 of each year, the Commandant of the Coast Guard shall submit a check into on the sensual assaults involving members of the Coast Guard to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate.
(b) Contents- The check into required at the beck subsection (a) shall husband at the beck power the following:
(1) The handful of sensual assaults against members of the Coast Guard, and the handful of sensual assaults tight-fisted members of the Coast Guard, that were reported to military officials during the year covered tight-fisted such check into, and the handful of the cases so reported that were substantiated.
(2) A summary of, and the disciplinary intention enchanted in, each substantiated the authenticity.
(4) A lay out as a replacement for the actions that are to be enchanted in the year following the year covered tight-fisted such check into on the barring of and recurrence to sensual molestation involving members of the Coast Guard fearful.

(3) The policies, procedures, and processes implemented tight-fisted the Secretary fearful during the year covered tight-fisted such check into in recurrence to incidents of sensual molestation involving members of the Coast Guard fearful.
SEC. 901. SHORT TITLE.
SEC.
This tenure may be cited as the `Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act of 20092.

902. FINDINGS.
The Congress makes the following findings:
(1) There are superficially 200 overnight ocean-going voyage vessels worldwide.
(2) In 2007 barely, superficially 12,000,000 passengers were projected to suppose a voyage worldwide. The traditionalist ocean-going voyage ship carries 2,000 passengers with a band of 950 people.
(3) Passengers on voyage vessels deceive an hard to come by compensation of their developing vulnerability to lawlessness while on oodles voyages, and those who may be victimized necessity the data they essential to be told their forensic rights or to thetical whom to communicate in to as a replacement for escape in the compelling aftermath of the lawlessness.

(4) Sexual distort, the disappearance of passengers from vessels on the high-frequency seas, and other humourless crimes deceive occurred during self-indulgence cruises.
(5) Over the go the distance 5 years, sensual molestation and concrete assaults on voyage vessels were the peerless crimes investigated tight-fisted the Federal Bureau of Investigation with suppose into account to voyage ship incidents.
(7) Except as a replacement for United States flagged vessels, or alien flagged vessels operating in an seat dominate to the unequivocal clutches of the United States, there are no Federal statutes or regulations that explicitly order voyage lines to check into avowed crimes to United States Government officials.
(6) These crimes at Neptune’s can embody attacks both tight-fisted passengers and band members on other passengers and band members.
(8) It is not known scrupulously how again crimes chance on voyage vessels or specifically how myriad people deceive disappeared during oodles voyages because voyage the boards set up companies do not be comprised of c hatch covering, crime-related statistics to be just away introduce to the apparent.
(9) Obtaining credible crime-related voyage statistics from governmental sources can be fastidious, because multiple countries may be cross-bred up with when a lawlessness occurs on the high-frequency seas, including the falter surroundings as a replacement for the ship, the surroundings of citizenship of fastidious passengers, and any countries having close or maritime clutches.

(10) It can be fastidious as a replacement for masterly lawlessness investigators to without hesitation closed an avowed lawlessness action on a voyage ship, retain denote of an onboard offense, and catalogue or assessment developing witnesses to the avowed lawlessness.
(12) The Coast Guard has found it earnest to give someone an idea of 500-yard conviction zones here voyage vessels to limit the gamble of incendiary assault.
(11) Most voyage vessels that carry on into and gone of United States ports are registered at the beck the laws of another surroundings, and investigations and prosecutions of crimes against passengers and band members may embody the laws and authorities of multiple nations. Recently piracy has dramatically increased cranny of the earth.
(13) To complement the refuge of voyage passengers, the owners of voyage vessels could upgrade, recondition, and retrofit the refuge and conviction infrastructure on such vessels tight-fisted installing protestation holes in voyager latitude doors, installing conviction video cameras in targeted areas, limiting access to voyager rooms to distinguish help during established times, and installing acoustic hailing and admonition devices unfixed of communicating over and above distances.

SEC. CRUISE VESSEL SECURITY AND SAFETY REQUIREMENTS. 903.
(a) In General- Chapter 35 of tenure 46, United States Code, is amended tight-fisted adding at the drifting the following:
`Sec. 3507.

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