Wisconsin lawmakers consider legislation to tighten prohibitions on sexual assault within the National Guard
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Wisconsin lawmakers are considering tightening prohibitions on sexual assault in the National Guard. State National Guard officers didn't handle assault complaints correctly in the past
The proposals come after the National Guard Bureau in Washington, D.C, released a blistering report in December 2019 that found Wisconsin National Guard commanders between 2009 and 2019 improperly kept sexual assault complaints to themselves rather than passing them along to the national bureau for investigation. The Wisconsin National Guard’s commander, Maj. Gen. Donald Dunbar, resigned just as the report was released.
Sexual misconduct has been a long-standing problem within the U.S. military. The Department of Defense received 8,942 reports of sexual assault in fiscal year 2022, up about 0.8% from the 8,866 reports it received in 2021 and 14% from the 7,816 reports tracked in 2020, according to the department's reports tracking sexual assault.