Mississippi is NOT protecting students who live in campus housing

Nancy Barrett, President of the Safe Dormitories Association, addresses concerns about current dormitory visitation policies at Mississippi’s public four-year universities. Get involved and sign our petition!

Nancy discusses the impact these policies can have on student safety, privacy, roommates, parents, and particularly first-year students living away from home for the first time. She also explains the Safe Dormitories Association’s Christian perspective and why the organization believes Mississippi’s dormitory policies need greater public awareness and change.

Watch the complete video to hear Nancy Barrett’s full message, the concerns raised by the Safe Dormitories Association, and why the organization believes this issue deserves the attention of Mississippi parents, students, and citizens. Please share with others.

The Safe Dormitories Association is a Christian organization of Mississippi citizens who are deeply against the policy of allowing men students to spend long unsupervised hours in the women’s dormitory rooms - their bedrooms - and vice versa for the men’s dormitory rooms. End this policy now. We need your help!

Mississippi is NOT protecting students who live in campus housing

Our research has revealed that a 10-year study exposed the fact that 81 percent of all reported rapes and assaults occurred in the dorms. (The Conversation, published: April 6, 2016, Professor Andrea Curcio)

Join us in the fight to restore decency and safety to our Mississippi dormitories. Our organization worked to introduce a beautifully written bill, The Safe Dorms Act, in the 2025 legislature year to return all the dormitories on our state university campuses to separate-gender dormitories with opposite-gender visitation only in designated public reception areas---not in the girls’ bedrooms. To our great disappointment, our bill died in committee in both the Senate (SB 2218-Hill) and the House of Representatives (HB 1605-Hobgood-Wilkes). We also had an amendment to SB 2221, introduced by Senator Williams, which we were hopeful to pass, but it also died in the house committee under Representative Donnie Scoggin. Our bill was killed again in committee in both the House of Representatives and the Senate of the 2026 Mississippi legislative session. Mississippi we can do better!

You might wonder just how many women are harmed each year in their dormitory rooms in our Mississippi Public Universities and Colleges. Review our Mississippi Universities Annual Security Reporting.

Shockingly more than 90% of sexual assault victims on college campuses do not report the assault! (National Sexual Violence Resource Center) Think about that when you read the above statistics.

Furthermore, studies now show the most vulnerable time for women students is the first two months of the freshman year. In fact, to symbolize the danger, the first few months of the fall freshman semester are now commonly called the sexual assault “red zone.” (Professor Andrea Curcio, The Conversation, April 6, 2016)

What can you do? Sign the Petition!
Join forces with Safe Dormitories Association and Donate Online today. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and all donations go back in the promotion and awareness of our critical cause. Add your company or individual name to the donors’ list for restoring common sense back into our public dormitories. If Becoming a Donor is not an option, then please pray for our cause, voice your support by liking our social media pages, and then share our content onto your social media pages with your family and friends, then encourage them to do so as well. Together we can make a positive change in Mississippi.

Sign the Petition and then call your senators and representatives and urge them to join forces with Safe Dormitories Association during this years Session of the Mississippi legislature and pass common sense "Safe Dorms" reform for our students.

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Join us in the fight to restore decency and safety to our Mississippi dormitories. The Safe Dormitories Association is an organization of Mississippi citizens who are deeply against the policy of allowing men students to spend long unsupervised hours in the women’s dormitory rooms - their bedrooms - and vice versa for the men’s dormitory rooms. End this policy now. We need your help!

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