Ultraviolet
The petition to Congressional leaders, including the Republican Women's Caucus and Democratic Women's Caucus, reads:
The Survivor Justice Network (formerly Survivors' Agenda), this country's largest and most influential coalition of survivor research, policy, and advocacy organizations, has long created an investigatory process for handling sexual misconduct complaints in political workplaces and spaces. These guidelines, the Fair Process Principles, were created over a three-year span and included the input of dozens of experts, including workplace sexual harassment attorneys, policy experts, and even New York Attorney General Letitia James while her office was investigating then-Governor Andrew Cuomo. In fact, many of the best practices in the Fair Process were modeled after that investigation. We strongly encourage you to adopt this process. Here is a PDF with the guidelines: https://weareultraviolet.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-Fair-Process-Principles-for-Political-Workplaces.pdf
The Survivor Justice Network (formerly Survivors' Agenda), this country's largest and most influential coalition of survivor research, policy, and advocacy organizations, has long created an investigatory process for handling sexual misconduct complaints in political workplaces and spaces. These guidelines, the Fair Process Principles, were created over a three-year span and included the input of dozens of experts, including workplace sexual harassment attorneys, policy experts, and even New York Attorney General Letitia James while her office was investigating then-Governor Andrew Cuomo. In fact, many of the best practices in the Fair Process were modeled after that investigation.
We strongly encourage you to adopt this process. Here is a PDF with the guidelines: https://weareultraviolet.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-Fair-Process-Principles-for-Political-Workplaces.pdf
Sexual harassment and assault are life-changing civil rights violations that can undermine the survivor's ability to thrive and participate in the workplace, education, and political and civic life.
As the country recently witnessed with the resignations of accused abusers and former Congress members, Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales, sexual misconduct remains rampant in the halls of power. That is why we at the Survivor Justice Network, of which UltraViolet Action is a steering committee member, have crowdsourced and developed the fair principles for an investigatory process and media response for when political candidates, elected and appointed leaders, campaign volunteers and staff workers are accused of sexual harassment and assault. We strongly encourage the Democratic Women's Caucus and Republican Women's Caucus, who have been tasked with identifying reforms and solutions to make Congress a safer work environment for women and all survivors, to adopt these reforms.