{"id":7781,"date":"2025-02-25T15:29:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T20:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=7781"},"modified":"2025-02-25T15:29:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T20:29:55","slug":"liberty-university-fire-staffer-for-reporting-improper-investigations-and-sexual-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=7781","title":{"rendered":"Liberty University fire staffer for reporting improper investigations and sexual harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Liberty University staffer is suing the private Christian school, saying administrators fired him for reporting sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Brake worked as an investigator in the university&rsquo;s Title IX office, typically the unit that investigates claims of sexual violence on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Among his claims, Brake, who was also an adjunct professor, alleges that his former boss harassed employees and was &ldquo;prejudging cases.&rdquo; He also states he reported his concerns to his supervisors, including the university president. The lawsuit says he was fired because he &ldquo;opposed discrimination and reported multiple violations of law to Liberty&rsquo;s leadership and senior managers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Brake&#8217;s attorney, Andrew T. Miltenberg of the law firm, Nesenoff &amp; Miltenberg, in a statement said his client filed suit after giving the university an opportunity to, &#8220;end its reign of oppression and inequity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RwTTyjN_DUM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/education\/2025\/02\/25\/liberty-university-lawsuit-title-ix-whistleblower\/79323649007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA TODAY reports &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Liberty University staffer is suing the private Christian school, saying administrators fired him for reporting sexual harassment.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=7781\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty University fire staffer for reporting improper investigations and sexual harassment<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[607],"class_list":["post-7781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-liberty-university-fire-staffer-for-reporting-improper-investigations-and-sexual-harassment","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-21v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7782,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7781\/revisions\/7782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}