Records are kept in a sealed envelope with the person's name, date of judicial committee and names of those on the judicial committee. These are to be destroyed after a number of years if the "offender" has kept his/her "nose clean." The Society gets the original. Not likely they would destroy it.
Got my judicial notes & file destroyed
by roybatty 26 Replies latest jw friends
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wheelwithinwheel
The sealed envelope is a joke. Anyone can tear open the envelope and read the contents. Even copy it. Next this anyone gets a new envelope, writes the person's name, date of the judicial committee and names of those on the judicial committee on it and seals it. And the envelope is back to being a confidential document. It's been done many times.
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ugg
no way!!!!!!!!! he lied to you.
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roybatty
no way!!!!!!!!! he lied to you.
Maybe, maybe not. Again, just passing along my personal exp. Others who have been thinking about it might also want to give it a shot.
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rocketman
Looking at it from their standpoint, and as that PO said, they keep a file mainly in case you do decide to return. Some men who served on the committe that met with you may no longer be at that Hall. Death could always be a factor too ( a PO around here died recently) so in time, should you decide to return, the file simply helps the elders who would meet with you get up to speed on what happened.
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roybatty
Looking at it from their standpoint, and as that PO said, they keep a file mainly in case you do decide to return.
That's what leads me to believe even more so that they did indeed destroy my file. My observation has been that most people who are Df'd or Da'd don't do things that are 180 degrees opposite of the WT's rules. How many ex-JW's vote, go to a differnt church, etc.? Because my ex and my kids still go to the same Hall as this PO knows that there isn't any chance in hell that I'm coming back. He knows I attend a differnt church, I vote and am active in differnt political campaigns, coach at the local YMCA and have made a whole new set of friends.
Again, I wouldn't have lost any sleep over this but I did find it surprising that they would honor my request.
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caspian
In the UK
All Judicial notes on everybody except child abusers should have been destroyed at least 4 years ago as per Society Instructions ,leaving just the Specialised Sheperding List to fit in with the new Data Protection Act 1998.
I don't know whether this new policy applies to the rest of the world yet.
There has been numerous posts on this, including a useful one by JEMIMAH.
Caspian