Guidelines
for
the
on-site manager to use in making
decisions about disruptive behavior at Autreat
Mild to
moderate verbal violence or other behavior
that disrupts peaceful enjoyment of Autreat and causes significant and
reasonable upset to others, but falls short of actually terrorizing
anyone
- conference
with
the
offender alone and/or attempt to mediate with offender and victim
- if
repeated,
additional conferences/warnings; coaching of victim (and possibly
bystanders)
in ways to respond to repeat offenses
- if victim wishes, offender may be
banned from
activities where the victim is present.
Serious
verbal violence not including
credible threat of imminent physical violence, including but not
limited to ambiguous
threatening language
or
severely
abusive verbal content
or
combination
of moderately abusive content + excessive
volume
or
following
the
victim of the attack, or preventing the
victim from leaving the area, or otherwise persisting in a verbal
attack when
the victim of the attack is attempting to peacefully leave the situation
or
verbal
attack deliberately targeted at some known
vulnerability of the victim
- conference
(with
offender
and/or parent/guardian, depending on age of offender) and
warning on
first offense
- if
repeated,
additional conferences, exclusion from the situation where the offense
is
occurring (e.g., if someone repeatedly commits serious verbal abuse
[such as
sexual harassment] at the pool, the person may be banned from the pool
area),
or expulsion, at the discretion of the on-site manager.
- Physical
violence
or
credible threat of imminent physical violence: Perpetrated by an
adult--immediate expulsion. Perpetrated by a child--conference with
child and
parent/on-site guardian for first offense; expulsion for second offense.