Military Feedback Form | Safe helpline

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If you have comments, compliments, or complaints about the services on your installation/base or provided by a Sexual Assault Response Coordinator (SARC), victim advocate or other military staff or personnel, please use this feedback form. You can submit the form anonymously if you prefer. The information you provide on this form will be forwarded to the DoD Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO).

If you believe you have experienced or witnessed retaliation in any form from a peer, supervisor or someone in your chain of command following a report of sexual assault, you can report the retaliation allegations to SAPRO either anonymously or with your personal contact information. Reports of retaliation that are made to SAPRO will be forwarded to Department of Defense Inspector General (DoD IG) if your personal contact information is provided.

If you would like to submit a retaliation report directly to the DoD IG click here.

If you are a member of the Coast Guard, any report of retaliation made to SAPRO using this form that includes your personal contact information will be sent to the Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS) Washington Field Office (WFO). Or, if you would like to directly contact CGIS's WFO to make a report of retaliation, you can by calling 571-228-5414. Additionally, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) IG will also accept retaliation complaints as falling within the scope of their responsibilities for Whistleblower protection. Call 1-800-323-8603 (toll free) or access the Allegation Form online.

Information you provide on this form will be forwarded to the DoD Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO).

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First Name

Last Name

User

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Service Affiliation

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Status/Position

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Installation/Base

Please tell us where the interaction took place.

Date of Incident

Please give the date of the negative interaction (not the assault).

Name and/or Office of Military Personnel

Name and/or office of the person you are writing about

What is this person's title or position

Your Comments

If you have a complaint, compliment, or believe you have experienced retaliation in any form, please be as specific as possible.

Would you like SAPRO to follow up with you regarding this complaint?

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Email Address

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Phone Number

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Military Feedback Disclosure

If you have problems with this form, please contact DoD SAPR directly at whs.mc-alex.wso.mbx.SAPRO@mail.mil.

DD Form 2985-1, "Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO) Military Feedback Form," January 2018

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Privacy Act Statement

Authority: 10 U.S.C. 1561 note, Improved Sexual Assault Prevention and Response in the Armed Forces; DoD Directive 6495.01, Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR Program); DoD Instruction 6495.02, Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) Program Procedures.

Principal Purpose(s): To track victim-related inquiries received by the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO) via e-mail, SAPR.mil, the DoD Safe Helpline, phone, or postal service. Once received, inquiries are referred to the appropriate agency POC and/or to the DoD IG in order to address the issue(s) raised and facilitate a resolution. To allow individuals to provide feedback on the services of a SARC, victim advocate, or other military staff or personnel on their installation/base. This form does not constitute a report of sexual assault.

Routine Use(s): Disclosure of records are generally permitted under 5 U.S.C. 552a(b) of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended.

To contractors, grantees, experts, consultants, students, and others performing or working on a contract, service, grant, cooperative agreement, or other assignment for the federal government when necessary to accomplish an agency function related to this system of records. Additional, routine uses may be found in the applicable system of records notice, DHRA 18 DoD, DoD Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office Victim Assistance Data Systems at: http://dpcld.defense.gov/Privacy/SORNsIndex/DOD-Component-Notices/OSDJS-Article-List/

Disclosure: Voluntary; however, failure to provide information may result in the inability to provide requested services.