The Vice Delegate's Weekly Update, 2020-12-13

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The Vice Delegate's Weekly Update

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Part of The North Pacific WA Development Program

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Greetings All,

With the addition of Creotx State to the Security Council, we lost roughly 80 Keeper Nations. The Security Council and I have begun the process of informing those nations of their lost status and alert them to who they need to endorse to gain it back. Rocketdogs application is currently under review by the Security Council.

In declassification news, the first 5 threads are now available for viewing by citizens in the archives. I have another 10 threads that have been redacted and are undergoing a final security check before being released. I expect the check to be finished around Wednesday.

I have been asked some questions privately about the declassification process and I will share the answers here so that everyone can understand what we are doing.

Alot of redactions say that the person was unable to give consent, what does that mean?
Past Court rulings have held that the intent of the law must be taken into consideration when determining what the law means. From the debate on the disclosure process, it was clear that the law was to require affirmative consent from past members of the Security Council and other parties who may have contributed to discussion, in the release of their statements. If you see that the redaction was made because there was no consent, it means exactly that, I have not recieve permission from the party to release their post.

What did you do to get their consent?
With the help of Eras, a list was generated of all members who posted in War Room threads. I sent a DM to each, informing them of the law and requesting their permission to release their post.

Did you try to contact them on Discord/NationStates?
No. Majority of the posters predate the switch to Discord and their nations are not always linked to their post. Many nations have CTEd or the members have not logged into the forums for years. Oftentimes, there is no way to confirm that the nations that are active, are still controlled by the members making the post.
If you have any other questions about the process you can TG, DM, or whisper me.

Signed
~Dreadton

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https://forum.thenorthpacific.org/topic/7288700/9#post-10370831]Forum version[/url]]

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Jointly sponsored by the Delegate and Security Council of The North Pacific.

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