If your child is facing a Title IX case at their high school in Washington, you need to take the necessary precautions before you engage with the school in any capacity. Too much is at stake. You need to understand that although the Title IX Final Rule allows for a more structured and arguably equitable process than under previous guidance, you cannot assume it will be a fair process. It will take a dedicated effort for an accused student to be found not responsible. The Title IX Final Rule will allow a Washington high school to address an adjudicated case through either an investigation or a live hearing model. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages and needs to be responded to accordingly.
You need to familiarize yourself with the school's policies. Over the course of the case, you need to mount the strongest possible defense. Each step along the way needs to be calculated. It is an involved and a high-stakes process. Having an experienced attorney advisor in your son or daughter's corner from as early as possible in the process will allow for the best prospect of success.
An experienced attorney advisor will be able to help an accused student who's facing a Title IX case at their high school in Washington. They'll be able to help them ensure a fair process and a favorable outcome. They should be involved from as early as possible in the case.
Washington high schools where Joseph D. Lento can help as your child'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
- Adna School District
- Almira School District
- Anacortes School District
- Arlington School District
- Asotin-Anatone School District
- Auburn School District
B
- Bainbridge School District
- Battle Ground School District
- Bellevue School District
- Bellingham School District
- Benge School District
- Bethel School District
- Bickleton School District
- Blaine School District
- Boistfort School District
- Bremerton School District
- Brewster School District
- Bridgeport School District
- Brinnon School District
- Burlington-Edison School District
C
- Camas School District
- Cape Flattery School District
- Carbonado School District
- Cascade School District
- Cashmere School District
- Castle Rock School District
- Centerville School District
- Central Kitsap School District
- Central Valley School District
- Centralia School District
- Chehalis School District
- Cheney School District
- Chewlah School District
- Chimacum School District
- Clarkston School District
- Cle Elum-Roslyn School District
- Clover School District
- Colfax School District
- College Place School District
- Colton School District
- Columbia School District (Stevens)
- Columbia School District (Walla Walla)
- Colville School District
- Concrete School District
- Conway Consolidated School District
- Cosmopolis School District
- Coulee-Hartline School District
- Coupeville School District
- Crescent School District
- Creston School District
- Curlew School District
- Cusick School District
D
- Damman School District
- Darrington School District
- Davenport School District
- Dayton School District
- Deer Park School District
- Dieringer School District
- Dixie School District
E
- East Valley School District (Yakima)
- East Valley School District (Spokane)
- Eastmont School District
- Easton School District
- Eatonville School District
- Edmonds School District
- Ellensburg School District
- Elma School District
- Endicott School District
- Entiat School District
- Enumclaw School District
- Ephrata School District
- Evaline School District
- Everrett School District
- Evergreen Public Schools (Clark)
- Evergreen School District (Stevens)
F
- Federal Way School District
- Ferndale School District
- Fife Public School District
- Finley School District
- Franklin Pierce School District
- Freeman School District
G
- Garfield School District
- Glenwood School District
- Goldendale School District
- Grand Coulee Dam School District
- Grandview School District
- Granger School District
- Granite Falls School District
- Grapeview School District
- Great Northern School District
- Green Mountain School District
- Griffin School District
H
- Harrington School District
- Highland School District
- Highline School District
- Hockinson School District
- Hood Canal School District
- Hoquiam School District
I
- Inchelium School District
- Index School District
- Issaquah School District
K
- Kahlotus School District
- Kalama School District
- Keller School District
- Kelso School District
- Kennewick School District
- Kent School District
- Kettle Falls School District
- Kiona-Benton City School District
- Kittitas School District
- Klickitat School District
L
- LaCenter School District
- LaConner School District
- LaCrosse School District
- Lake Chelan School District
- Lake Stevens School District
- Lake Washington School District
- Lakewood School District
- Lamont School District
- Liberty School District
- Lind School District
- Longview Public Schools
- Loon Lake School District
- Lopez School District
- Lyle School District
- Lynden School District
M
- Mabton School District
- Mansfield School District
- Manson School District
- Mary M. Knight School District
- Mary Walker School District
- Maryville School District
- McCleary School District
- Mead School District
- Medical Lake School District
- Mercer School District
- Meridian School District
- Methow Valley School District
- Mill A School District
- Monroe School District
- Montesano School District
- Morton School District
- Moses Lake School District
- Mossyrock School District
- Mount Adams School District
- Mount Baker School District
- Mount Pleasant School District
- Mount Vernon School District
- Mukilteo School District
N
- Naches School District
- Napavine School District
- Naselle-Grays River Valley School District
- Nespelem School District
- Newport School District
- Nine Mile Falls School District
- Nooksack Valley School District
- North Beach School District
- North Franklin School District
- North Kitsap School District
- North Mason School District
- North River School District
- North Thurston Public Schools
- Northport School District
- Northshore School District
O
- Oak Harbor School District
- Oakesdale School District
- Oakville School District
- Ocean Beach School District
- Ocosta School District
- Odessa School District
- Okanogan School District
- Olympia School District
- Omak School District
- Onalaska School District
- Onion Creek School District
- Orcas Island School District
- Orchard Prairie School District
- Orient School District
- Orondo School District
- Oroville School District
- Orting School District
- Othello School District
P
- Palisades School District
- Palouse School District
- Pasco School District
- Pateros School District
- Paterson School District
- Pe Ell School District
- Peninsula School District
- Pioneer School District
- Pomeroy School District
- Port Angeles School District
- Port Townsend School District
- Prescott School District
- Prosser School District
- Pullman School District
- Puyallup School District
Q
- Queets-Clearwater School District
- Quilcene School District
- Quillayute School District
- Quinault School District
- Quincy School District
R
- Rainier School District
- Raymond School District
- Reardan-Edwall School District
- Renton School District
- Republic School District
- Richland School District
- Ridgefield School District
- Ritzville School District
- Riverside School District
- Riverview School District
- Rochester School District
- Roosevelt School District
- Rosalia School District
- Royal School District
S
- San Juan Island School District
- Satsop School District
- Seattle School District
- Sadro-Woolley Schools
- Selah School District
- Selkirk School District
- Sequim School District
- Shaw School District
- Shelton School District
- Shoreline School District
- Skamania School District
- Skykomish School District
- Snohomish School District
- Snoqualmie Valley School District
- Soap Lake School District
- South Bend School District
- South Kitsap School District
- South Whidbey School District
- Southside School District
- Spokane School District
- Sprague School District
- Stanwood-Camano School District
- Star School District
- Starbuck School District
- Stehekin School District
- Steilacoom Historical School District
- Steptoe School District
- Stevenson-Carson School District
- Sultan School District
- Summit Valley School District
- Sumner School District
- Sunnyside School District
T
- Tacoma School District
- Taholah School District
- Tahoma School District
- Tekoa School District
- Tenino School District
- Thorp School District
- Toledo School District
- Tonasket School District
- Toppenish School District
- Touchet School District
- Toutle School District
- Trout School District
- Tukwila School District
- Tumwater School District
U
- Union Gap School District
- University Place School District
V
- Vader School District
- Valley School District
- Vancouver School District
- Vashon School District
W
- Wahkiakum School District
- Wahluke School District
- Waitsburg School District
- Walla Walla School District
- Wapato School District
- Warden School District
- Washougal School District
- Washtucna School District
- Waterville School District
- Wellpinit School District
- Wenatchee School District
- West Valley School District (Spokane)
- West Valley School District (Yakima)
- White Pass School District
- White River School District
- White Salmon Valley School District
- Wilbur School District
- Willapa School District
- Wilson Creek School District
- Winlock School District
- Wishkah Valley School District
- Wishram School District
- Woodland School District
Y
- Yakima School District
- Yelm School District
Z
- Zillah School District
It is critical to make certain the Title IX investigation at your child's Washington 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, Pennsylvania, 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 Washington and throughout the nation. Make certain your or your student's interests are protected - Contact National High School Title IX Attorney Joseph D. Lento today at 888-535-3686.
