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Edited on Wed Sep-16-09 04:02 PM by anigbrowl
http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12439&tx_ttnews=22584&tx_ttnews=12387&cHash=913db2b19b
http://bit.ly/uT1qC <- working link, as DU eats anything between square brackets and breaks the original URL http://www.acorn.org/ <- or just hit their website and click on the top link "ACORN Announces Major Steps to Address Issues Raised by Videos"
In response to recently released videos of frontline ACORN staff, ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis made the following announcement Wednesday morning:
"As a result of the indefensible action of a handful of our employees, I am, in consultation with ACORN's Executive Committee1, immediately ordering a halt to any new intakes into ACORN's service programs until completion of an independent review. I have also communicated with ACORN's independent Advisory Council, and they will assist ACORN in naming an independent auditor and investigator to conduct a thorough review of all of the organizations relevant systems and processes. That reviewer, to be named within 48 hours, will make recommendations directly to me and to the full ACORN Board. We enter this process with a commitment that all recommendations will be implemented."
Ms. Lewis is specifically ordering the following steps be taken effective noon eastern on September 16, 2009:
- No new intakes will be accepted into ACORN's offices for service programs, effective immediately; - An immediate in-service training for all frontline staff has been ordered within 48 hours; - ACORN's independent Advisory Council will help select an independent auditor/reviewer no later than September 18th to review all of the systems and processes called into question by the videos.
More at link. This is the right thing to do, and I'm glad to see them doing it. It would have been smarter to do so last Monday or last week, but such is life. So, good on Ms Lewis for recognizing the serious nature of the problem this has created for the organization and taking prompt and definitive steps to rectify it.
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