The American Economic Association has announced that they have initiated a Reporting Lockbox – Now Available to Members, meant to allow members to record transgressions such as sexual harassment while reserving and preserving the right to report them later, if the same individual is named as an offender by someone else. The idea is to allow repeat offenders to be identified, even if each offense might be too ambiguous to justify an immediate complaint.
"The Reporting Lockbox enables AEA members who are not yet ready to file a
formal complaint to log circumstances or conduct by other members that may
violate the AEA’s policy against harassment, discrimination, and retaliation.
If two or more AEA members log alleged incidents of harassment, discrimination,
or retaliation perpetrated by the same person by making entries in this digital
archive and indicating a willingness to communicate with other alleged victims,
each member who logged an incident will be contacted separately to determine if
each would consider communicating with the other members, or to otherwise keep
the submission active or withdraw it. A mutual decision to contact the other
members who logged an incident about the same alleged perpetrator could lead to
their filing a formal complaint with the AEA Ethics Committee or pursuing other
options outside of the AEA.
"The AEA will not have access to the Reporting Lockbox, and therefore will not
know the identities of members or persons of interest unless action is taken by
the members through the filing of a formal complaint to the AEA. Users of the
Lockbox can edit or remove entries at any time."
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