<div dir="ltr">Okay, I have a few questions. First of all, I am very grateful to have been appointed to that Committee as I am enjoying it very much and keeps me on my toes.<div><br></div><div>My question though has to do with its secrecy. Now that I have participated a bit to have a grasp of what it is that we do, I am not sure I understand the justification for its deliberations and discussions to be secret.</div><div><br></div><div>In reviewing the Policy Manual it categorizes the discussions as sounding in employer-employee confidentiality, but I don't see how that is the broad case. I can imagine a situation in which that might arise, but why make the whole thing secret for a circumstance that would be rare... which seems to me to be like making all LNC meetings secret because a legal matter might come up.... instead we wall off the truly confidential matters.</div><div><br></div><div>I am not saying I am opposed to it being secret, but I am saying that I am not sure I understand the necessity and justification and would like to know what it is. I believe in openness and transparency to the extent possible that will not actively harm the organization.</div><div><br></div><div>Realistically there are probably two oddballs like me in the whole Party that would actually read the whole thing. But that shouldn't stop us from removing the veil from things that do not need to be. And I think secrecy policies should be re-evaluated regularly.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">In Liberty,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Caryn Ann Harlos</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Region 1 Representative </div><div style="font-size:12.8px">(Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Caryn.Ann.Harlos@LP.org</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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