How do I contact the USCF Ethics Committee?
Is this a ‘tournaments’ question? If it is regarding the organization or direction of a tournament, it may more properly be a TDCC issue.
It appears that the committee lists are part of the ‘Governance’ pages that are still in limbo at the moment due to the transition to the new website backend/frontend.
I think Wick Deer is chair of Ethics this year, you may contact him through the USCF office. (He has not listed any ‘public contact’ information in his member profile.)
Tim Just is chair of TDCC.
Complaints to either the Ethics Committee or the TD Certification Committee should be sent to the USCF office, with a $25 deposit that will be refunded if the committee decides the complaint is not frivolous.
Judy Misner is the office liaison to Ethics, contact her for any other specific requirements for filing ethics complaints. Larry Pond is the office liaison to TDCC.
You write to the USCF Office.
The Rules Committee chair is David Kuhns. If a TD does not apply a rule properly, they are the committee you want.
The TDCC is the place to go to if a tournament report is not handed in on time, prizes are not paid, memberships are not forwarded to USCF…; i.e., USCF/TD procedural stuff.
Cheating, improper behavior, …are all in the Ethics realm.
Often it is hard to know which committee to file a complaint with; however, by taking Ken Sloan’s advice and forwarding your complaint/concern/question to the USCF office they, will route it to the proper committee.
If your concern is in the form of a complaint, don’t forget not only the $25 refundable (not refundable if all you are doing is to not agree with legal pairings because your set of, also legal, pairings was not used) fee but also all hard evidence. Smoking gun evidence is not very effective as proof that your complaint should be upheld. Committee’s, especially Ethics, refrain from being both investigator and judge/jury.
Tim
I have a feeling the Office refunds the $25 "non-frivolous" complaint fee regardless of how frivolous the complaint is. I wonder how many $25 fees were [i]not[/i] refunded?
Want to test that? Let’s file a complaint against someone for bandersnatch abuse and obstruction of dogs, and see if we get the $25 back.
I can think of several.
Refunds for Ethics complaints are not automatic.