Nathan wrote:
From your comments, Michael, can we infer that you are considering making
the monitoring and enforcement of the privacy policy, and the subpolicy [[m:checkuser]], a staff responsibility?
I suppose that's one possibility, but not one I was particularly focused on. Mike Godwin, to pick a possible candidate, already has more than enough work to do.
Rather, the point is that there's a sense the ombudsman commission, as currently constituted, has not been a fully satisfactory answer to the potential scope of issues. Now one reaction might simply be a change in personnel, but I think this is an appropriate point to reconsider the structure as well.
What system would work best for us here? Should it remain a committee? Another common approach is to have one person designated with that responsibility. In places where demand is large enough, the ombudsman might be an office or department, with support staff handling delegated assignments, and the Ombudsman ultimately in charge at its head. If we go with a designated person, that person might or might not be staff. Another possibility, with either the committee or designee approaches, is to "contract" this out to some other organization. If so, who? This is the kind of analysis I was inviting in my last message.
--Michael Snow