Ehhh, I can see an issue with everything being transparent. I used to work in the Civil Service and trust me, the Freedom Of Information act causes a huge amount of busywork.
That said there does seem to be the general and harmful opinon that EA orgs don’t have conflict of interest policies, but they do so sharing them seems good.
I have a civil-service background as well—full FOIA would be unreasonable, but “post your policies once every few years unless there are reasons not to post certain portions” isn’t a heavy ask.
And they should all be put on a wiki page called “conflict of interest policies”
What do you lot hate about this? Seems like a reasonable place to put them. And much more credible to be able to say “all our orgs policies are here”
I’ll go even further: policies of potential public interest should be public unless there is an articulate reason to the contrary.
Ehhh, I can see an issue with everything being transparent. I used to work in the Civil Service and trust me, the Freedom Of Information act causes a huge amount of busywork.
That said there does seem to be the general and harmful opinon that EA orgs don’t have conflict of interest policies, but they do so sharing them seems good.
I have a civil-service background as well—full FOIA would be unreasonable, but “post your policies once every few years unless there are reasons not to post certain portions” isn’t a heavy ask.
I agree Nathan, I don’t understand the downside. If it’s public, it’s public so why not just make it more easily accessible?