46 U.S.C. § 51325 — Sexual assault and sexual harassment prevention information management system

(a) Information Management System. By January 1, 2023, the Maritime Administrator had to set up, within the Academy's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Program, a system to track claims and incidents involving cadets that must be reported under section 51318(d), organized so patterns can be spotted. The system must include, when available: (A) the total number of incidents per fiscal year; (B) where each incident happened, including the vessel and company name if relevant; (C) the standardized job title of people involved; (D) the general nature of each incident, including copies of related reports; (E) the type of inquiry made; and (F) whether the incident was substantiated by the investigation. The system must include past data the Administrator already has, not just data collected after January 1, 2023. The Administrator and the Department's Chief Information Officer must make sure the system is (A) secure and protects individuals' privacy, and (B) free of personally identifiable information, keeping only what's needed for statistics. Ninety days after the system started, the Department's Inspector General had to begin a cybersecurity audit and report the results to the Senate Commerce Committee and House Transportation Committee. The Administrator must set up a process so that if a final decision clears someone of wrongdoing, all personal information about that person is removed from their incident report. (b) Sea Year Program. The Administrator must set up confidential in-person and virtual exit interviews, run by staff not involved in assigning cadets to Sea Year vessels, for cadets after they finish Sea Year and complete the survey under section 51322(d). (c) Data-informed Decisionmaking. The Administrator must actually use the system's data and the exit-interview results to shape new or changed policies and regulations on sexual harassment, dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking.