Re: P&P: RE: RE: FW: Policy and Code of Practice for e-mail lists and Internet Resources V1 D1

["Jay Halcomb" <jhalcomb8@attbi.com>]

Robert's Rules is available online in the 4th Edition. For example, see:

http://www.constitution.org/rror/rror--00.htm

http://www.constitution.org/rror/rror-13.htm

or:

http://www.rulesonline.com/

http://www.rulesonline.com/start.html#rror-13.htm

I notice, in particular, this:

"72. The Right of a Deliberative Assembly to Punish its Members. A
deliberative assembly has the inherent right to make and enforce its own
laws and punish an offender, the extreme penalty, however, being expulsion
from its own body. When expelled, if the assembly is a permanent society, it
has the right, for its own protection, to give public notice that the person
has ceased to be a member of that society.
But it has no right to go beyond what is necessary for self-protection and
publish the charges against the member. In a case where a member of a
society was expelled, and an officer of the society published, by its order,
a statement of the grave charges upon which he had been found guilty, the
expelled member recovered damages from the officer in a suit for libel, the
court holding that the truth of the charges did not affect the case."

That last bit suggests to me a need to be cautious in these matters. I'm not
a lawyer, though.

Jay

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jim.s3@juno.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 20:10
Subject: Re: P&P: RE: RE: FW: Policy and Code of Practice for e-mail lists
and Internet Resources V1 D1


>
> Matthew and Phil,
>
>         We need to start from existing policies and only add things when
> needed.
>
>         I don't think the SAB P&Ps at
> http://www.computer.org/standards/ORIENT/p&ptoc.htm address member
> behavor.
>
>         RRO says a lot about it, but only in respect to in-person
> meetings.
>
>
> XX Disciplinary Procedures
>
>  61.  ...any member can move to order a penalty, or the chair can first
> ask, "What penalty shall be imposed on the member?"  A motion offered in
> a case of this kind can propose that the offender be required to make an
> apology, that he be censured, that he be required to leave the hall
> during  the remainder of the meeting or until he is prepared to
> apologize, that  his rights of membership be suspended for a time, or
> that he be expelled  from the organization...A single member can require
> the vote on the imposition of a penalty to be taken by ballot.  Expulsion
> from membership requires a two-thirds vote.
>
> It's too late tonight to type up the whole section, but I'll do so in the
> next day or two.
>
> Jim
>
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