[grc] Culture change, #MeToo, and volunteers at community radio stations

[Ani Raven]

I'm wondering if other stations have had someone from the listening
community step forward to say that they had been sexually assaulted in the
past by an on-air host. If so, what has been your response?  If not, have
you had conversations about what you would do should it happen?

In a related note, do you have policy / practice about volunteers' behavior
outside of the station?  In the past, KBOO has always said we lack capacity
to deal with behavior outside of the building / volunteer experience. In
many of the well known incidents that have come to news headlines in the
last year, many of acts did not take place in the workplace, but sometimes
in social settings. Now I'm wondering how we would deal with a complaint
about a volunteer's behavior in their "private life".

I'd be super interested in hearing about any station's experience or
policies that would be applicable to either of these situations.  I'm also
interested in talking with anyone else who has also pondered these issues,
and wants to discuss it further.

Hey- if you're coming to the conference in October, I'd love to discuss
this with you face to face--  speaking of the conference in October, I hear
we are getting very near capacity.  http://grassrootsradioconference.org/

love and solidarity,
ani