BJS strips gender identity from three more collections: School Crime Supplement, Survey on Sexual Victimization, Survey of Inmates in Local Jails

OMB paperwork filings analyzed in May 2025 revealed that BJS had quietly revised at least three additional instruments: the NCVS School Crime Supplement's section on gender-identity-based harassment was replaced with a sex-only question ("sex - including being male or female"); the Survey on Sexual Victimization stopped recording the gender identity of victims in substantiated prison and jail sexual-misconduct incidents (relevant to PREA oversight; see section 7); and the Survey of Inmates in Local Jails lost its gender-identity references despite a recent redesign. Attachments showed crossed-out questions.