When Pawleys Island Community Church’s then-pastor Don Williams addressed his congregation about allegations that the church had allowed a sex offender to have access to children, he did not engage with parents shouting questions at him. Days later, his resignation letter described staff as “unfairly caught in the crossfire of this past week” and asked for prayer….
Some makes a claim about a staff member or volunteer, and your lawyer tells you to start pulling all your records. You think, “We have records on this person somewhere.” That’s usually true. The problem is that “somewhere” can mean three different systems, two email inboxes, and a filing cabinet nobody has opened in years. When…
Most states treat many statements by your employees as binding admissions. That doctrine is not a distant legal concern. In the days and weeks after a serious incident, the emails your program director sends to parents, the conversations your operations director has with staff, and the statements your organization posts on social media can all…