This Act clarifies the duties of the Chancellor pursuant to Article II, Section 2(c) of the Constitution. The Chancellor shall be responsible for overseeing the production and maintenance of publicity and public information with respect to the actions, policies and history of the CDS government. In order to ensure no one is overburdened, and that obligations pursuant to this law are met in a timely fashion, this authority may and should be delegated, in whole or in part, to a Public Information Team. Pursuant to the Constitution, however, the Chancellor retains the responsibility for the performance of these duties.
The Chancellor shall designate a Public Information Team, with individual duties specified in writing and made publicly available at the beginning of each term. Functions including maintenance of the calendar, group event notice supervision, inworld physical information source (kiosks, magazines, handouts, etc.) development and maintenance, shall each be assigned to a named individual reporting regularly to the Chancellor.
The Chancellor shall be responsible for ensuring that all information about the CDS made publicly available within the CDS regions is current and up to date at all times.
The Chancellor shall arrange for information kiosks to be deployed and maintained at high-traffic points in each CDS region. These kiosks are to include, at minimum, maps of each region identifying the purpose and ownership of each building; brief and uncontroversial information about the origins and purpose of the CDS; and a pictorial guide to the CDS as a whole. This information also shall be made available in a simple package which can be distributed to visitors, new citizens or other interested parties.
The Chancellor shall ensure that group subscribers for the CDS inworld group are available at a broad range of public sites within the CDS, and at all official events. Posting access to this group shall be open to all citizens. The Chancellor shall designate a member of the Public Information Team to be responsible for oversight of notice policy, and for assisting any citizen who may have content concerns or language difficulties, to post notices in conformity with the guidelines. Use of the group by citizens, within the guidelines, for any event which might be of general interest, shall be strongly encouraged.
Passwords for all official media channels shall be held by the Chancellor and appropriate members of the Public Information Team, the LRA and the Dean of the SC. Under no circumstances shall these passwords be known only to one person. At the beginning of their term, the Chancellor shall change all passwords and immediately notify the LRA and the Dean of the SC of the new passwords for the term.
All informational, public relations and other promotional activities not specifically assigned to the Chancellor under this Act shall be the responsibility of citizens, acting as individuals or through regional, trade or other non-governmental associations.
Group Notice Guidelines
All land-owning citizens shall have the right, but not the obligation, to have group notice access.
The CDS group is made up of persons interested in the project of CDS, so notices should focus on events within the sims. No spam please. No event occurring within CDS should be announced on group notices more than three times within 7 days.
The CDS community is made up of diverse and interesting individuals with activities throughout the SL grid, which also may be of interest to our members. Therefore any citizen who wishes to announce events occurring OUTSIDE of CDS is encouraged to submit their events to the Chancellor to include in weekly announcements or otherwise approved for distribution and placement on the CDS Calendar.
Events must be open to all (no discrimination) (except griefers), and groups are encouraged to open their membership to attendees.
There shall be no charge for admission to any events announced on the CDS group channel.
No solicitation of funds shall be made on Group Notices or on the CDS channel.
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Modified by the 31st RA, October, 2019