Domestic Violence Victim—violence against a person when the accuser and accused:
1. Are current of former spouses;
2. Live together or have lived together;
3. Are related by blood or adoption;
4. Are related or were formally related by marriage; or,
5. Are adult or minor children of a person in a relationship described above.
Domestic Violence – includes, but is not necessarily limited to:
1. Inflicting, or attempting to inflict, physical injury on the accuser by other than
accidental means;
2. Placing the accuser in fear of physical harm;
3. Physical restraint;
4. Malicious damage to the personal property of the accuser, including inflicting,
or attempting to inflict, physical injury on any animal owned, possessed,
leased, kept, or held by the accuser; or,
5. Placing the accuser in fear of physical harm to any animal owned, possessed,
leased, kept, or held by the accuser – TCA § 36-3-601; or,
6. Placing a victim in fear of physical harm to another person: friends, family, or
associate.
Sexual Assault—the nonconsensual sexual contact with the accuser by the accused, or the
accused by the accuser when force or coercion is used to accomplish the act, the sexual contact
is accomplished without consent of the accuser, and the accused knows or has reason to know
at the time of the contact that the accuser did not or could not consent. Sexual contact includes,
but is not limited to, the intentional touching of the accuser’s,
Sexual Misconduct—for the purposes of this policy, “sexual misconduct” is defined as dating
violence, domestic violence, stalking, and sexual assault.
Stalking—a willful course of conduct involving repeated or continuing harassment of another
individual that would cause a reasonable person to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated,
threatened, harassed, or molested, and that actually causes the accuser to feel terrorized,
frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested.
Sexual Contact—includes, but is not limited to, the intentional touching of the accuser’s, the
accused’s, or any other person’s intimate parts, or the intentional touching of the clothing
covering the immediate area of the accuser’s, the accused’s, or any other person’s intimate
parts, if that intentional touching can be reasonably construed as being for the purpose of
sexual arousal or gratification.
Sex Discrimination—is treating someone less favorably because of that person’s sex, sexual
orientation, or gender identity/expression.
