If you are affected by false sexual misconduct allegations, you are NOT alone. Since 2013, Families Advocating for Campus Equality (FACE) has assisted thousands of accused individuals and provides confidential support for victims of false allegations and their family members. If you have been accused, please review What to Do if Accused. To learn more about how to protect yourself from false sexual misconduct allegations, please check Avoid Allegations. Students or faculty members accused of sexual misconduct are strongly encouraged to seek the advice of legal counsel immediately, regardless of any local law enforcement involvement and any procedural guidelines or restraints on legal representation at the school. Although separate from our civil and criminal court system, the school disciplinary process can have devastating life-long effects on future educational and employment opportunities. Sexual misconduct (i.e., assault, rape) should be handled by courts of law rather than unqualified campus tribunals.

FACE supports and advocates for equal treatment and due process for all affected by campus disciplinary processes. Furthermore, we support projects to create balanced Title IX procedures and protections against false or untrue accusations and criminal behavior on campus. We believe that many untrue accusations in campus tribunals are not knowingly untrue but are likely misremembered or otherwise distorted by intoxication, peer pressure, activist misrepresentation, and campus culture. Whether the false accusations are deliberate, misguided, or misremembered is irrelevant to those accused; they have been implicated for something they did not do and will suffer devastating consequences. We will refer to all untrue accusations, including deliberate, misguided, or misremembered, as “wrongful.”