How We Have Fulfilled Requests, Part 3 of 10
This post (3 of 10) is a portion of our larger report on “How We Have Fulfilled Requests of People Who Have Reported Harm.” Follow this link for an introduction to our terminology, how we facilitated and organized requests, and for a table of contents for each request.
Accountability Request 3:
A publicly accessible platform documenting the accountability process.
There were requests for Charlie to create a platform that discloses the members of his pod, provides updates on the accountability process, and details known harms. This took the form of our Medium page. He was initially asked to create a Facebook page or group, but this would have given him an opportunity to curate the discussion and direct traffic back to his own website and Facebook page. The Medium page allows the pod to be in charge of the reporting while preventing Charlie, the pod, and the consultants from promotionally benefiting from this process.
In response to feedback that the Medium page needed to be written in a clearer, simpler manner — and in an attempt to account for delays that prevented us from updating Medium as often as we wanted and/or promised — the pod had Charlie find ghostwriter candidates. After the pod reviewed and interviewed the candidates, they selected one for Charlie to hire in December 2021. This writer collaborated with us on these final posts, which allowed the team to publish and move toward the conclusion of the accountability process. While this writer met frequently with pod members to receive the information necessary to help draft and edit these posts, they have not had access to Respondents’ reports or any other confidential information. Having an outside perspective gave us the opportunity to review our communications, paying particular attention to clarity of content. Each post written in collaboration with our ghostwriter contains a note at the top stating so.
Additionally, the pod has received related requests to reflect on our use of language and to strive to write in a way that is accessible to readers outside of the sex education, counseling, and coaching fields. To honor this, we have worked to keep our writing style as direct and free of jargon as possible and have, on occasion, used online software to help us analyze the general readability of our posts. We know that this is an evolving process, though, and because we have various people writing at once, this will be imperfect but worth working on.
Follow this link to go to the Request 4: Community accountability in supporting those reporting harm.
Follow this link for an introduction to our reporting on requests and a table of contents for each request.
