In April of 2024, the Department of Education approved New Title IX rules, which are scheduled to take effect on August 1, 2024. Our firm is closely monitoring ongoing challenges to these new rules in court, and is working hard to provide you the most up-to-date information. Click here to learn about the current state of Title IX and how we can help if you are facing accusations.
If your child is facing a Title IX case at their high school in Idaho, you need to take the necessary precautions before you engage with the school in any capacity. Too much is at stake. Although the Title IX Final Rule allows for a more structured and an arguably more equitable process than previous guidance, you cannot assume it will be a fair process and it will still require a dedicated effort for an accused student to be found not responsible.
The Title IX Final Rule also allows for a school to address and adjudicated case through either the investigation or a live hearing model and each has its own pros and cons and these need to be responded to accordingly. It is a high stakes and an involved process and every step through the process needs to be calculated. An experienced attorney-adviser will be your son or daughter's best ally if they're facing a Title IX case. They should be involved as early as possible to help work towards trying to ensure a fair process and a favorable outcome.
Idaho high schools where Joseph D. Lento can help as your child's student's Title IX advisor during investigations, hearings and appeals include, but are not limited to, the following school districts:
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- Aberdeen School District
- American Falls School District
B
- Bear Lake School District
- Blackfoot School District
- Blaine County School District
- Bliss Joint School District
- Boise School District
- Bonneville Joint School District
- Boundary County School District
- Buhl Joint School District
- Butte County Joint School District
C
- Caldwell School District
- Cascade School District
- Cassia Joint School District
- Challis Joint School District
- Coeur d'Alene Public Schools
- Cottonwood Joint School District
- Culdesac Joint School District
D
- Dietrich School District
E
- Emmett Independent School District
F
- Filer School District
- Firth School District
- Fremont County Joint School District
- Fruitland School District
G
- Garden Valley School District
- Genesee Joint School District
- Glenns Ferry School District, Idaho
- Gooding Joint School District
- Grace School District
- Grangeville Joint School District
H
- Highland School District
- Homedale Joint School District
I
- Idaho Falls School District
J
- Jefferson School District
- Jerome School District
- Joint School District
K
- Kamiah Joint School District
- Kellogg Joint School District
- Kimberly School District
- Kootenai School District
- Kuna School District
L
- Lake Pend Oreille School District
- Lakeland Joint School District
- Lewiston Independent School District
M
- Madison School District
- Marsh Valley Joint School District
- McCall-Donnelly Joint School District
- Melba School District
- Meridian School District
- Middleton School District
- Midvale School District
- Minidoka County School District
- Moscow School District
- Mountain Home School District
- Mullan School District
N
- Nampa School District
- New Plymouth School District
- North Gem School District
O
- Oneida School District
- Orofino Joint School District
P
- Parma School District
- Plummer-Worley School District
- Pocatello-Chubbuck School District
- Post Falls School District
- Potlatch School District
- Preston School District
R
- Ririe School District
- Rockland School District
M
- Maries School District
- Salmon School District
- Shelley School District
- Shoshone Joint School District
- Snake River School District
- Soda Springs Joint School District
- South Lemhi School District
- Sugar-Salem School District
T
- Teton County School District
- Troy School District
- Twin Falls School District
V
- Valley School District
- Vallivue School District
W
- Wallace School District
- Weiser School District
- Wendell School District
- West Bonner County School District
- West Jefferson School District
- West Side Joint School District
- Whitepine School District
- Wilder School District
It is critical to make certain the Title IX investigation at your child's Idaho high school is handled properly and that the accused student's interests and rights are protected from as early as possible during the sexual misconduct investigative process. One major reason is because even at high schools where a finding of responsibility for sexual misconduct charges is made at a hearing, the investigation will set the stage for what the hearing panel is provided prior to a hearing (and what the hearing panel will in large part rely on at a hearing), and at high schools where the finding of responsibility is made solely through the investigative process, what takes place during the investigation itself will determine whether the accused student is found responsible or not responsible for Title IX charges.
Unfortunately, some parents make the mistake of not taking the necessary precautions as soon as possible when accused of sexual misconduct. Some people will mistakenly believe that if they "just explain what happened," their school will be fair and impartial and will arrive at the truth. In a perfect world this may be the case, but in a perfect world, sexual misconduct allegations and Title IX charges would not exist.
Fighting passionately for the future of his clients at schools throughout the nation for many years, Joseph D. Lento knows how important it is to mount the strongest defense because he understands that an accused high school student's academic future is on the line. He does not settle for the easiest outcome, and instead prioritizes his clients' needs and well-being. Joseph Lento is a licensed attorney in New Jersey and New York, is admitted as an attorney pro hac vice in state and federal court if needed when representing clients nationwide, and serves as a Title IX attorney advisor to high school students facing sexual misconduct investigations and disciplinary cases in Idaho and throughout the nation. Make certain your or your student's interests are protected - Contact National High School Title IX Attorney LLF Law Firm today at 888-535-3686.
