> +to the circumstances. The Code of Conduct Committee is obligated to > +maintain confidentiality with regard to the reporter of an incident. > +Further details of specific enforcement policies may be posted > +separately.
Unfortunately by ignoring the other suggestions on this you've left this bit broken. The committee can't keep most stuff confidential so it's misleading and wrong to imply they can. Data protection law, reporting laws in some countries and the like mean that anyone expecting an incident to remain confidential from the person it was reported against is living in dreamland and are going to get a nasty shock. At the very least it should say '(except where required by law)'. There is a separate issue that serious things should always go to law enforcement - you are setting up a policy akin to the one that got the catholic church and many others in trouble. You should also reserving the right to report serious incidents directly to law enforcement. Unless of course you want to be forced to sit on multiple reports of physical abuse from different people about someone - unable to tell them about each others report, unable to prove anything, and in twenty years time having to explain to the media why nothing was done. Alan