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"The First Amendment gives people the right to do this," said Marc G. Epstein, an attorney in Hallandale, Fla. who said he represents the operator of mugshots.com, which lists an address on the Caribbean island of Nevis. "I don’t think there was ever a First Amendment that contemplated the permutations of communication that we have now."

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AP National Writer

Published Sunday, June 23, 2013, at 12:41 p.m.

Updated Sunday, June 23, 2013, at 12:41 p.m.

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After more than seven years and a move 2,800 miles across the country, Christopher Jones thought he’d left behind reminders of the arrest that capped a bitter break-up. That was, until he searched the Internet last month and came face-to-face with his 2006 police mug shot.

The information below the photo, one of millions posted on commercial website mugshots.com, did not mention that the apartment Jones was arrested for burglarizing was the one he’d recently moved out of, or that Florida prosecutors decided shortly afterward to drop the case. But, otherwise, the digital media artist’s run-in with the law was there for anyone, anywhere, to see. And if he wanted to erase the evidence, says Jones, now a resident of Livermore, Calif., the site’s operator told him it would cost 9.

Jones said he was angered by the terms of the offer, but no more so than scores of other people across the country discovering that past arrests – many for charges eventually dismissed or that resulted in convictions later expunged – make them part of an unwilling, but potentially enormous customer base for a fast-proliferating number of mug shot web sites.

With a business model built on the strengths of technology, the weaknesses of human nature and the reach of the First Amendment, the sites are proving that in the Internet age, old assumptions about people’s ability to put the past behind them no longer apply.

The sites, some charging fees exceeding ,000 to "unpublish" records of multiple arrests, have prompted lawsuits in Ohio and Pennsylvania by people whose mug shots they posted for a global audience. They have also sparked efforts by legislators in Georgia and Utah to pass laws making it easier to remove arrest photos from the sites without charge or otherwise curb the sites.

But site operators and critics agree that efforts to rein them in treads on uncertain legal ground, made more complicated because some sites hide their ownership and location and purport to operate from outside the U.S.

Operators of some sites say they’re performing a public service, even as they seek profit.

"I absolutely believe that a parent, for instance, has a right to know if their kid’s coach has been arrested… I think the public has a right to know that and I feel they have a right to know that easily, accessibly and not having to go to a courthouse," said Arthur D’Antonio III, CEO of justmugshots.com, a Nevada-based site that started in early 2012 and now claims a database of more than 10 million arrest photos.

But critics are skeptical.

"I can’t find any public interest that’s served if you are willing to take it (a mug shot) down if I give you 0. Then what public interest are you serving?," said Roger Bruce, a state representative from the Atlanta area who authored a law, set to take effect July 1, requiring sites to remove photos free for those arrested in Georgia if they can show that charges have since been dismissed.

Scott Ciolek, a Toledo lawyer who last year brought suit against four sites on behalf of two Ohioans dismayed to find their arrest photos online, said the mug shot publishers are taking advantage of people’s embarrassment to unfairly squeeze them for profit.

"The individuals who are victims of these extortions want as little attention on them as possible, if you know what I’m saying," Ciolek said.

The mug shot sites are just the latest ventures harnessing the Internet to aggregate information that previously would have taken considerable time, trouble or expense for ordinary people to uncover. That power underlies sites like ancestry.com, which compiles genealogical information including birth and death certificates, census and immigration records and other public documents in a forum that makes it much easier than previously possible for Americans to trace their family roots.

Arrest records are also widely considered to be public information and have long been collected by reporters making the rounds of police stations and courthouses. But before the advent of the web, an arrest on a charge of, say, disorderly conduct might have been printed in a local newspaper’s police blotter and then mostly been forgotten.

The mug shot sites’ operators use "web-scraping" programs to easily collect information from scores of police websites – and as a Texas lawsuit filed by one site operator against another shows, sometimes even to snatch those same photos from competitors. What used to be strictly local is now global, and a new tension results: Release of information widely regarded as necessarily public is, in aggregated form, viewed as potentially violating privacy.

"Certainly the world has changed in terms of the accessibility of historical information," said Jeff Hermes, director of the Digital Media Law Project at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. "My concern is that efforts to create a so-called ‘right to be forgotten’ run the risk of becoming laws that allow individuals to edit history, and that’s dangerous, especially if it winds up being applied to public governmental records."

But some of those whose photos have turned up on the sites say charging people to erase the evidence of an arrest is abusive.

Phillip Kaplan, one of the two people who brought the Ohio lawsuit, said he thought he had moved past the embarrassment of June 2011 when police, responding to complaints of a loud porchfront party he was attending during the city’s Old West End festival, charged him with failure to disperse. Kaplan, who is 35, said he declined an offer by prosecutors to plead guilty to a lesser charge, and eventually the case was dismissed.

In the meantime, though, Kaplan walked into a convenience store to find his mug shot on the cover of the weekly Buckeyes Behind Bars, alongside the headline "Hot Summer for Sex Offenders." The publication says on its website that it charges to those who’ve been arrested and want to avoid having their photo printed. Soon after, friends told him his mug shot was published on some of the online sites and later he was asked about the arrest during a job interview.

Kaplan said he understands the value to the public of publishing arrest photos, particularly for sexual predators. "That makes sense," he said, but not for lesser charges. "I mean, should there be a jaywalkers’ directory?"

Jones, whose April 2006 arrest by sheriff’s deputies near Orlando, Fla., turned up online, said he suspects the availability of his mug shot might be affecting his search for employment.

"I’ve been putting out so many resumes and people’s reactions are just funny. They’re really excited, they’ve seen my resume somewhere and then all of a sudden it’s like I have an infectious disease," said Jones, who is 34 and now a college student in California.

The lawsuit filed on Kaplan’s behalf, though, does not go after the websites for posting the photos. Instead, it accuses the sites of violating Ohio’s publicity rights law by wrongfully using people’s images for commercial purposes. Ciolek, the lawyer, said he’s fielded more than 20 calls a day from people interested in joining the suit since filing it last December.

A separate suit by a Sicklerville, N.J., man, Daryoush Taha, filed in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia in December, charges that officials in Bucks County, Pa., failed to remove a 1998 mug shot taken after police intervened in a parking lot dispute between Taha and his girlfriend. Taha accepted placement into a program called Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition and after completing community service in 2000 his record was automatically expunged. But his photo remained on the jail website and in 2011 was republished by mugshots.com.

"Listen, the whole purpose behind having your records expunged is to give you a second opportunity when you make a mistake," said Alan Denenberg, the lawyer for Taha in the suit against police, other agencies and the website. But Denenberg said that while he had served the suit on a Delaware firm that registered mugshots.com as a limited liability corporation in the state, he has no idea who owns the website or where it operates.

The mugshots.com site says it is owned by Openbare Dienst Internationale LLC – a name whose first two words are Dutch for "public service" – and lists an address in Nevis that belongs to a different corporate registration agent. People who want to remove their arrest photos are directed to a link for a partner, Unpublish LLC, which lists the address of yet another registration agent, in the south American country of Belize. A phone number for Unpublish, listed on its Internet domain paperwork, rings to a fourth registry agent, also in Belize.

Epstein, who says he handles some public relations functions for the site as well as providing legal counsel, would not provide details of its ownership or location and a message left for the operator with one of the Belize agents was not returned.

"We know we’re going to be talked down. We understand it. Nobody likes meter maids, nobody likes traffic tickets and nobody likes mug shots, but we operate legally and in the realm of what we do, totally accurately," Epstein said.

A competitor, mugshotsworld.com, lists an address in Russia, with a number on its registration paperwork that rings to a fax machine.

D’Antonio, who said he started justmugshots.com while working as chief technology officer of a Minneapolis web marketing company and recently relocated to a Nevada city he would not identify, was otherwise forthcoming.

He said he started the site after a friend asked for help manipulating web searches to "push down" a mug shot from his arrest on an alcohol-related charge. D’Antonio said that, in the process of doing so, he looked into the law covering mug shots, discovered they were public information and realized that, with his computer skills, that presented a business opportunity.

But he acknowledges that publishing the photos and charging people to take them down contradicts the sentiment of helping his friend. He said he has tried to act responsibly by removing photos at no cost for those who can show all charges have been dismissed, they were found not guilty, were under 18 at the time or for those who have since died.

"Then it becomes a balancing act and it’s a very, very tough line to walk and one that we absolutely take very seriously, but there’s very little black and white to it," D’Antonio said. He said he expects the business of aggregating and publishing largely overlooked public records to evolve rapidly, and thinks eventually his company could partner with local governments, doing work now handled by the agencies while offering them a new source of revenue.

Some of the mug shot sites list numerous affiliated sites, often breaking down arrests by state. Bruce, the Georgia legislator, said calls to numbers listed on some sites were answered by what sounded like the same person, prompting concerns that a payment to erase a photo from one site might prompt the same photo to turn up on another.

But Epstein, the Florida lawyer, said the site he represents is "not Whackamole-y. You don’t hit the head down in one portion of the arcade game and it pops up somewhere else. That’s not our model at all."

The new Georgia law attempts to curb the for-profit mug shot sites, requiring them to remove photos at no charge for those who were arrested in the state and can prove charges are dismissed, an idea that site operator D’Antonio said he supports. But the legislator acknowledges the law’s protections are limited in scope and its effectiveness will become clear only when it is tested in court. Some of those whose arrest photos have turned up online, though, see little recourse for their frustration.

Nicholas Ingebretsen, a college student in Savannah, Ga., is anything but proud of his arrest this past February, charged with disorderly conduct for throwing an empty bottle in a parking lot outside a bar. When a police officer asked what he was doing, Ingebretsen said he replied, "being an idiot, I guess."

But when his mug shot showed up on three different commercial sites, Ingebretsen said he was mortified. He heard about Bruce’s bill and called one of the sites to request removal of the photo without charge. But the person who answered told him repeatedly that the website was exempt from the Georgia law, he said.

"They said read the bill. I said I did read the bill," Ingebretsen said.

"I’m not going to argue with you," the man on the other end of the line answered. Then he hung up.

Adam Geller, a New York-based national writer, can be reached at features (at) ap.org. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/AdGeller

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Digital media artist Christopher Jones sits at his desk at his home in Livermore, Calif. on Tuesday, June 4, 2013. After more than seven years and a move 2,800 miles across the country, Jones thought he’d left behind reminders of the arrest that capped a bitter break-up. That was, until he searched the Internet in May 2013 and came face-to-face with his 2006 police mug shot. The information below the photo, one of millions posted on commercial website mugshots.com, did not mention that the apartment Jones was arrested for burglarizing was the one he’d recently moved out of, or that Florida prosecutors decided shortly afterward to drop the case. But, otherwise, the graphic artist’s run-in with the law was there for anyone, anywhere, to see. And if he wanted to erase the evidence, says Jones, the site’s operator told him it would cost 9.

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Phillip Kaplan sits outside his home in Toledo, Ohio on Monday, June 3, 2013. Kaplan says he thought he had moved past the embarrassment of June 2011 when police, responding to complaints of a loud porchfront party he was attending during the city’s Old West End festival, charged him with failure to disperse. Kaplan, who is 35, said he declined an offer by prosecutors to plead guilty to a lesser charge, and eventually the case was dismissed. In the meantime, though, Kaplan walked into a convenience store to find his mug shot on the cover of the weekly Buckeyes Behind Bars, alongside the headline “Hot Summer for Sex Offenders.” The publication says on its website that it charges to those who’ve been arrested and want to avoid having their photo printed. Soon after, friends told him his mug shot was published on some of the online sites and later he was asked about the arrest during a job interview.

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Phillip Kaplan sits outside the house in Toledo, Ohio on Monday, June 3, 2013 where he was arrested in June 2011. He was originally charged for failure to disperse during a party, but his case was dismissed. A lawsuit filed on Kaplan’s behalf does not go after websites for posting police booking photos. Instead, it accuses the sites of violating Ohio’s publicity rights law by wrongfully using people’s images for commercial purposes. Scott Ciolek, the lawyer, said he’s fielded more than 20 calls a day from people interested in joining the suit since filing it in December 2012.

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Phillip Kaplan sits outside his home in Toledo, Ohio on Monday, June 3, 2013. Kaplan says he understands the value to the public of publishing arrest photos, particularly for sexual predators. "That makes sense," he said, but not for lesser charges. "I mean, should there be a jaywalkers’ directory?"

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Digital media artist Christopher Jones is photographed at his home in Livermore, Calif. on Tuesday, June 4, 2013. Jones, whose April 2006 arrest by sheriff’s deputies near Orlando, Fla., turned up online, said he suspects the availability of his mug shot might be affecting his search for employment. "I’ve been putting out so many resumes and people’s reactions are just funny. They’re really excited, they’ve seen my resume somewhere and then all of a sudden it’s like I have an infectious disease," said Jones, who is 34 and now a college student in California.

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Digital media artist Christopher Jones sits at his desk at his home in Livermore, Calif. on Tuesday, June 4, 2013. In May 2013, he found his 2006 police mug shot on a website. Jones was arrested for burglarizing an apartment he’d recently moved out of after a breakup, but Florida prosecutors decided shortly afterward to drop the case. But if he wanted the photo taken down, the site’s operator told him it would cost 9. Jones said he was angered by the terms of the offer, but no more so than scores of other people across the country discovering that past arrests – many for charges eventually dismissed or that resulted in convictions later expunged – make them part of an unwilling, but potentially enormous customer base for a fast-proliferating number of mug shot web sites.

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Big Red Football … Who’s in Trouble Next in Steubenville? — The grand jury will convene around April 15. (MAR 18, 2013) …item 2.. Florida State groups bring attention to rape culture (Apr. 10, 2013) …
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The connections raising the most eyebrows on the day after the verdict point to one man who’s going to have a lot of explaining to do: Steubenville football head coach Reno Saccoccia. The coach did not testify in the rape trial, but he told the Cleveland Plain-Dealer on Friday that he was "expecting" to take the stand, perhaps signaling that he’s agreed to cooperate with investigators. He certainly couldn’t cooperate any less with reporters.

Saccoccia has claimed in other brief interviews that he doesn’t "do the Internet" and had not seen the many pictures and videos which circulated online in town before they went national; he physically confronted a New York Times reporter in an expletive-laden tirade that served as his response to why he had not disciplined Mays, Richmond, or any other players following the night of August 11.

But according to testimony from last week’s trial, Mays had sent a text message to one his friends, in which he confirmed that he had told Saccoccia about the incident. Mays, the 17-year-old Big Red quarterback, sent this text:

"I got Reno. He took care of it and sh– ain’t gonna happen, even if they did take it to court."

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The rape trial ended on Sunday in Steubenville, Ohio, determining exactly what it set out to discover — whether high-school football players Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond raped an intoxicated 16-year-old girl at parties last August. They were found guilty on all counts. And while the bigger implications for the case — cover-ups, gross-out videos, and a too-powerful football program — have already been tried in social media, a bigger legal fight may charge the people behind them, from the coach who "took care of it" to more players and maybe even parents.

All of those implications will play out next month before a grand jury, which Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced after the trial and could shake up Steubenville once more before the case ever goes away. "We’ve gathered a lot of evidence, but we cannot put this to bed," DeWine said. "My prosecutors will present evidence to this Grand Jury for it to determine if other crimes have been committed," reads the statement. The town seems to be onboard with the continued investigation, but the town may end up exposed for having let the crime go unreported for up to a week, and the new charges may run all the way up Steubenville’s complex chain of power. Here’s a search for clues on what’s next.

Looking for Charges in an Interconnected Town

Of the 60 individuals identified by the attorney general’s office as persons of interest, DeWine said 16 people who may have had information refused to talk with investigators. Many of those people are underage. DeWine said, without being asked, that "indictments could be returned and additional charges could be filed." And here’s the tricky part: Under Ohio law, if you fail to report a crime, you may be breaking the law.

Ohio Law decrees that ‘no person, knowing that a felony has been or is being committed, shall knowingly fail to report such information to law enforcement authorities… Whoever violates division (A) or (B) of this section is guilty of failure to report a crime.

While the juvenile court lessens rape charges to a Category 2 crime, rape is a felony. (This may be news to CNN, where an actual chiron headline today read: "Realizing rape is a crime.") DeWine said at his press conference that, beyond the failure-to-report charge, possible additional charges could investigated include failure to report child abuse, tampering with evidence, and "others."

So who are investigators looking at for this grand jury hearing? Well, Steubenville is a town of 18,000 people, but a lot of those people are connected by way of the football team, the legal system, and especially local law enforcement. The power players in this town know each other. To get a sense of the inner workings, we’ve expanded on a comprehensive chart from investigative journalist Joey Ortega, with new connections based on news reports and testimony in last week’s trial. This map is not proof of any funny business or wrongdoing — not at all — but it does help re-introduce the bigger picture, and you can click the image below to expand:

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What Did Coach Reno Take Care of, Exactly?

The connections raising the most eyebrows on the day after the verdict point to one man who’s going to have a lot of explaining to do: Steubenville football head coach Reno Saccoccia. The coach did not testify in the rape trial, but he told the Cleveland Plain-Dealer on Friday that he was "expecting" to take the stand, perhaps signaling that he’s agreed to cooperate with investigators. He certainly couldn’t cooperate any less with reporters. Saccoccia has claimed in other brief interviews that he doesn’t "do the Internet" and had not seen the many pictures and videos which circulated online in town before they went national; he physically confronted a New York Times reporter in an expletive-laden tirade that served as his response to why he had not disciplined Mays, Richmond, or any other players following the night of August 11

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"I got Reno. He took care of it and sh– ain’t gonna happen, even if they did take it to court."

High-school coaches and school officials are expected under Ohio law to report child abuse. If what Mays claimed in his text message is true, that would implicate Saccocia. "The coach and the school district have repeatedly declined to comment," according to USA Today, which adds that parents may also face more charges.

Coach Saccoccia was the subject of criticism all the way back in the summer for failing to discipline his players who were witnesses to the attack, even as some of them testified under oath in pre-trial hearings in the fall that they had seen a possible crime. "Two players who testified at a hearing in October were not suspended until eight games into a 10-game regular season," reports the Plain-Dealer, which notes that Saccoccia has maintained that he did not discuss the incident with his players. That runs contrary to the testimony of Evan Westlake, a football player and eyewitness of one of the attacks, who said during last week’s trial that he discussed the incident with Saccoccia.

What Did We Learn from the Players Who Can’t Be Charged?

Mark Cole, Anthony Craig, and Evan Westlake were all granted immunity after a late-night meeting on Thursday with Judge Thomas Lipps. They went on to testify against their frieds on the football team in eye-witness testimony that strengthened the prosecution’s case. All three had provided testimony at the pre-trial hearing in October under the assumption of an immunity deal, which DeWine publicly revoked before the trial… only to have Lipps officially grant a get-out-of-jail free cards on Friday. When asked after the trial if the three witnesses could still face charges, DeWine indicated that the immunity deals were likely to hold up, unless the grand jury revealed some extraordinary new circumstances.

Cole testified that he videotaped one of the attacks on his cellphone while driving the victim — along with Mays and Richmond — to his house. And Craig and Westlake both testified to witnessing Mays assault the girl when they got to Cole’s house. Westlake said he saw Richmond penetrate Jane Doe with his fingers while she was unconscious, and Westlake has admitted that he filmed the 12-minute "dead girl" video, since gone viral many times over, in which Steubenville baseball player Michael Nodianos viciously jokes about the attack.

Can the Gross Viral Video Become a Crime?

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About that video: The grand jury’s probe might have its most obvious case in failure to report from the student who reported all about it on YouTube. Nodianos, who has since lawyered up since dropping out of Ohio State last semester, was the young man laughing and joking his way through the clip above, including saying that the Jane Doe victim was "so raped right now." He has not been charged with any crime, his lawyer maintains that he was not present at the scene of the alleged attack, and the video is too heavy on the commentary to provoke a similar charge to Mays, who in addition to rape was convicted of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material — presumably from a photo on his cellphone with the victim naked and covered in his semen. But Nodianos clearly understood the details of Doe’s intoxication at the parties — as did a lot of the students to attend them — and he clearly had some understanding of the nature of the attack on her.

"They peed on her," Nodianos says in the video. "That’s how you know she’s dead, because someone pissed on her." That’s an exaggeration — no one urinated on the victim, but Nodianos appears to be referring to her state toward the end of the night, which matches up with testimony from another student. Yahoo’s Dan Wentzel has a recap:

One kid, Patrick Pizzoferrato, pulled out and said he’d give it to anyone who urinated on her.

"I made it as a joke," Pizzoferrato testified. "… I don’t think anyone thought I was serious when I said that."

"He was not raised in that manner," Nodianos’s lawyer said at a press conference in January. "I don’t believe it was a crime to make the video, but it was stupid." What Nodianos knew, however, could be called into question if the attorney general’s office is looking for public finality. Alexandra Goddard, the blogger who first started making connections in the case that took the case outside of Steubenville, is speaking out again, and she notes that Nodianos’s Twitter account was what "horrified" her first.

Where Were the Parents? And What’s in All Those Cellphones?

There was plenty of drinking on the August 11, and three different parties after an early-season Big Red game, one of which we know happened at Cole’s house. But where did all the parents go after the final whistle, and then immediately following what’s now been officially called a rape? The students at the parties were all around 16 or 17, and many are wondering who supplied them with alcohol, which clearly played a part in the crime, as well as why no parents went to the authorities before the girl’s did three mornings later.

In his press conference on Sunday, before announcing that he had called the grand jury, DeWine made a point to explain the work not just of his investigators who questioned so many people, but also the thoroughness of his cyber-crimes division in inspecting 13 phones, two iPads, and the contents therein: "From those phones, investigators reviewed and analyzed 396,270 text messages; 308,586 photos/pictures; 940 video clips; 3,188 phone calls; and 16,422 contacts listed in phones," DeWine said in his statement. There were local police investigators doing initial work, followed by the investigations of the Jefferson Country sheriff’s office — run by controversial sheriff and alleged buddy of the coach Fred Abdalla — and then reinforcements from the AG’s office and even the FBI, after what prosecutor Marianne Hemmeter said was added pressure put on the case by the hacking group Anonymous.

During last week’s trial, we started to learn what was in some — but perhaps not all — of those text messages, and that there were more gruesome photos. Mays had texted his friends on August 13, the day before the crime was officially reported, telling them about the attack and trying to organize an alibi:

"Dude, I’m so [expletive] scared," the defendant says in a text to a friend. "Her dad knows where we brought her. If we’re questioned just say she was really drunk and we were trying to keep her safe."

Mays and Richmond were arrested on August 22, more than a week after the girl’s parents reported the crime to the Steubenville police department. In another exchange, as The New York Times’s Richard Oppel reports, Mays told another of this friends about the incident, perhaps admitting that he tried and failed to have oral sex with the girl:

Mr. Mays also texted that the girl “was like a dead body” and that he did not try to have oral sex with her because “she would have thrown up,” while denying that he drugged the girl and texting that he tried to take her beer away.

At one point, a friend texted to Mr. Mays, “You are a felon.”

It’s those type of texts which could be incriminating to their recipients, because an argument could be made that whoever was on the receiving end — perhaps teammates — had some kind of knowledge of the incident and failed to report it.

The grand jury will convene around April 15.

Image by Luis Nunez / A.Abad-Santos; Original mind map by Joey Ortega

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Topics: Steubenville, Steubenville Rape

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Florida State kicked off Rape Culture Awareness Week Monday, April 8.

The series of events held around campus this week is sponsored by a number of organizations around campus including: The F-Word, The Center for Participant Education (CPE), The English department, Dream Defenders, Victim Advocate Program and Men Advocating Responsible Conduct (MARC).

“In a rape culture, people are surrounded with images, language, laws, and other everyday phenomena that validate and perpetuate rape. Rape culture includes jokes, TV, music, advertising, legal jargon, laws, words and imagery, that make violence against women and sexual coercion seem so normal that people believe that rape is inevitable,” CPE stated in a press release. “Rather than viewing the culture of rape as a problem to change, people in a rape culture think about the persistence of rape as ‘just the way things are.’”

The week started off with a Rape culture Identity Panel and the Women’s Student Union General Body Meeting on Monday and Tuesday.

On Wednesday, a consent workshop was held to discuss communicating consent in situations that may involve sex.

The rest of the week has plenty of events in store for students to take part in.

Today in HCB room 102, No!, a film by Aishah Shadiah Simmons will be screened. Simmons will speak about the subject following the film.

Aishah Shahidah Simmons is an award-winning African-American, feminist, lesbian independent documentary filmmaker, television and radio producer, published writer, international lecturer, rape and incest survivor, and activist.

“I expect that it will be mostly women students who attend, but there should be a sizeable amount of men and faculty members attending,” said Jessica Schwartz, Co-Coordinator of the F-Word. “There has been Stop Rape Week put on by the Women’s Student Union in the past, but this year is different because of the cooperation amongst multiple organizations and those organizations hosting and speaking at events.”

Friday, April 12, will feature the Rally to End Rape Culture at 3 p.m. on Landis Green.

Over the weekend, Saturday is the Refuge House benefit show being held at 8 p.m. in Jet Set lounge at 501 North Macomb Street. There is a fee for this event but all proceeds will go to the Refuge House, a resource for domestic violence and sexual assault victims.

The show will include performances by Mystery Date, Atomic Dog, The Fuzzheads, Bastards Out of Carolina, Gladys Nobriga and Cat Dreams.

Closing out the week on Sunday, April 13, the F-Word will host a discussion on Rape Culture in Union Room 311E at 7 p.m.

“In a world where one in four women are sexually assaulted in their lifetime (and one in six of men), the importance of asking for consent and communicating about sex and sexual activity is paramount,” CPE stated in the press release. “There are several myths that circulate about sexual assault, one being that walking alone at night and being accosted by a stranger is the most likely of situations. The truth is that a person is more likely to be assaulted at a party or on a date and by someone the victim knows. Hence, the purpose of this interactive workshop is to find more adequate language to define sexual assault and consent, to find ways to make communicating about sex easier, and hopefully for participants to make practicing consent a part of their daily lives.”

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