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This is the enforcement manual used by the Code of Conduct Committee when they respond to an issue to make sure they are consistent and fair. Enforcement of the Code of Conduct should be respectful and not include any harassing behaviours.

4.1 Urgent Situations: Acting Unilaterally

If the incident involves physical danger or involves a threat to anyone’s safety (such as threats of violence), any member of the community may -- and should -- act unilaterally to protect the safety of any community member. This can include contacting law enforcement (or other local personnel) and speaking on behalf of the Turing Way team.

If the act is ongoing, any community member may act immediately, before reaching a consensus, to diffuse the situation. In ongoing situations, any member may at their discretion employ any of the tools available in this enforcement manual, including bans and blocks online, or removal from a physical space.

In situations where an individual community member acts unilaterally, they must inform the committee as soon as possible, and report their actions for review within 24 hours.

4.2 Less-Urgent Situations

Upon receiving a report of an incident, the CoC committee will review the incident and determine, to the best of their ability:

This information will be collected either in person or in writing. The CoC committee will provide a written summary of the information surrounding the incident. All participants will be anonymised in the summary report, referred to as “Community Member 1”, “Community Member 2”, or “Research Team Member 1”. The “de-anonymising key” will be kept in a separate file and only accessed to link repeated reports against the same person over time.

The CoC committee will aim to have a resolution agreed upon within one week. In the event that a resolution can’t be determined in that time, a member of the CoC committee will respond to the reporter(s) with an update and projected timeline for resolution.

4.4 Resolutions

The CoC committee will seek to agree on a resolution by consensus of all members investigating the report in question. If the committee cannot reach a consensus and deadlocks for over a week, Kirstie Whitaker will break the tie. If any of the committee members are unable to take part in the discussion due to a conflict of interest, Anna Krystalli, as an external member of the CoC committee, will make the decision.

Possible responses may include:

Once a resolution is agreed upon, but before it is enacted, a member of the CoC committee will contact the original reporter and any other affected parties and explain the proposed resolution. The CoC committee member will ask if this resolution is acceptable, and must note feedback for the record. However, the CoC committee is not required to act on this feedback.

4.5 Conflicts of Interest

If the report is about someone is the committee, please send the report to the other individuals on the committee.