Amazon also operates an e-mail hotline dedicated to handling reports of AWS abuse.
Mr. Roche's comments on Wednesday were his most expansive so far on the broader issue of how the Air Force was handling reports of sexual assaults and treating victims of attacks.
Edward F. Stancik, the city's special commissioner of investigations in the schools, who is charged with handling reports of sexual misconduct, said he believed that even the current city statistics underestimated the true level of sexual misconduct.
The requirement to delete information after 90 days is in a set of procedures for handling reports entered into the Defense Department database, which is known as the Threat and Local Observation Notice reporting system, or Talon.
Those officers are charged with handling reports of animal abuse, barking dogs and other violations.
The University of Virginia had a "mixed record" handling reports of sexual assault and violated the gender equity law Title IX in certain cases, a federal report found.
Obama on Wednesday announced the creation of a task force to examine how institutions of higher education are handling reports of sexual assault.
But NBC edited the interview and added a narrated voice-over to imply that he was referring to handling reporting internally.
The college had earlier hired two outside lawyers, Gina Smith and Leslie Gomez, to help the administration review and reform its policies for handling reports of sexual assault.
An audit by the state that came out in June found the school was not handling reports of sexual assault adequately and concluded that some staff were not properly trained to handle reports of sexual violence and that the reporting process wasn't made clear to students.
