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DoDI 5505.18 — Investigation of Adult Sexual Assault in the Department of Defense

DoDI 5505.18 is listed as current Current
in the DoD Issuances catalog as of our last index refresh (2026-08-23). Status is mirrored from that catalog, re-checked weekly — every change is logged. Note: its publication date is 2017-03-22 — 9.4 years old — so check for newer interim changes before citing it.

Branch	Department of Defense
Series	DoDI
Publication date	2017-03-22 (9.4 years ago)
Status	Current
Proponent / OPR	IG, DOW
Source of record	DoD Issuances

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If DoDI 5505.18 changes, who else is affected

Functional community	Publications	Which ones
Investigations	3	DAFI 71-101V1, AFPD 71-1, DAFPD 71-1
Law	3	DAFI 51-207, DAFMAN 51-203, DAFI 51-201
Inspections & Special Management	2	DAFI 90-6001, DAFPD 90-60

8 publications in 3 other communities depend on this one. Each community inspects its own publications; a dependency that crosses communities is owned by nobody, which is why this list normally does not exist anywhere. Built from the publications' own citations, so it reflects what we have read.

Publications that cite DoDI 5505.18

DAFI 51-207 — Victim And Witness Rights And Procedures Current 7 mentions
DAFI 71-101V1 — Criminal Investigations Program Current 4 mentions
AFPD 71-1 — Criminal Investigations and Counterintelligence Not in the current catalog 3 mentions
DAFMAN 51-203 — Law Records of Trial Current 3 mentions
DAFPD 71-1 — Criminal Investigations And Counterintelligence Current 3 mentions
DAFI 51-201 — Law Administration of Military Justice Current 2 mentions
DAFI 90-6001 — Sexual Assault Prevention And Response (Sapr) Program Current 2 mentions
DAFPD 90-60 — Special Management Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (sapr) Program Current 2 mentions
AR 600-20 — ARMY COMMAND POLICY Current 1 mention
HAFMD 1-20 — The Inspector General Current 1 mention

If DoDI 5505.18 changes, these are the documents that point at it. Extracted from the publications' own text, so it reflects what we have read, not a complete dependency map. Every publishing office validates its own document; nobody validates the seams between them.

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Nearby in the DoDI series

DoDI 5505.15 — DoD Contractor Disclosure Program Current
DoDI 5505.16 — Investigations by DoD Components Current
DoDI 5505.17 — Personally Identifiable Information and Law Enforcement Information Handling by DoD Law Enforcement Activities Current
DoDI 5505.19 — Military Criminal Investigative Organizations' Special Victim Investigation and Prosecution Capability Current
DoDI 5505.20 — Processing Evidence Into The National Integrated Ballistic Information Network In Connection With DOD Criminal Investigations Current

This is an unofficial index built from the public catalog. The controlling copy is always the one on DoD Issuances — verify there before citing DoDI 5505.18 in an official product.