Filing Disciplinary Council forms online

I am a ward clerk , we recently held a disciplinary council & filled out the forms in MLS. Our Stake Executive secretary said that we should have filled them out online & sent them in.

I would like to know where to go in lds.org to find those forms & navigate thru those for the future.

Thank you,

Gary I

on LDS.org: Leaders resources/membership/disciplinary councils

I'll try that,

Thanks TinMan

TinMan wrote:on LDS.org: Leaders resources/membership/disciplinary councils

If we fill the report online, where does it go? Directly to the stake? Who can retrieve it? How about for the bishop and clerk signatures?

you sign them electroically. It goes to the SP for his review and he signs it electronically. Then off to HQ. After that you can only retrieve it through a request to confidential records department.

At least that is my understanding...

The clerk fills out the form online and submits it to the bishop electronically. When the bishop electronically signs the form (after reviewing and editing it), it is routed to the Stake President. In each case, the action item will appear on the respective Leader Resources page (used to be on the right side, but I'm not the clerk any more so cannot see if the format has not changed).

I found it was easier to type everything up in word or OpenOffice, then copy and past to the online form.

Similar type of question.

We recently reconvened a disciplinary council and I now need to fill out a new report. When I go on lds.org and select the option to reconvene a council it just brings me back to the original form I filled out the first time. Am I just supposed to edit this form with the new information and change the council's prior decision, or is there a new form somewhere that I should fill out instead?

You got me on this one. During the last year I was ward clerk, we processed several disciplinary councils online. In each case, the report "vanished" from my view when I submitted it to the bishop for approval. However, we never reconvened any of those councils before I was released so I have no experience in that matter.

I would suggest you ask this question of your Stake Clerk.

Question for the forum... I am testing the Beta site, and am a bishop. I filled out the disciplinary form, as I have numerous times before, with no problems at all. However, tonight after inputing as usual, upon completion, and clicking the button to send it to the stake president, it came up with the error, "Access Denied: You do not have access to this feature." Any thoughts?

I'm having the exact same issue. I fill out the entire form and then when i go to "save for later" or to "submit" it. I get an access denied page.

jjtlds wrote:Any thoughts?

We won't be able to help you here. Call the number at the bottom of the page or click on the link that says "for technical problems, please click here".

Similar question here: we have a member who was disfellowshipped and has recently returned to full activity and is serving ably. His membership record still shows him as disfellowshipped. Sounds like from reading the previous posts that I need to get the bishop to get onto LDS.org and see if there's a form for him to fill out and/or approve there to get the reinstatement process going, rather than in MLS itself?

aetaber wrote:Sounds like from reading the previous posts that I need to get the bishop to get onto LDS.org and see if there is a form for him to fill out and/or approve there to get the reinstatement process going, rather than in MLS itself?

Either way works. If you use MLS, you mail in the form, but if you use LDS.org, you just submit the form online.

I am a ward clerk, and am trying to find the online form that I am supposed to fill out after a disciplinary council. I am on lds.org, have gone to leadership resources/membership, but do not see anything for disciplinary councils....can someone please copy and paste the url to me?

thutch97 wrote:I am a ward clerk, and am trying to find the online form that I am supposed to fill out after a disciplinary council. I am on lds.org, have gone to leadership resources/membership, but do not see anything for disciplinary councils....can someone please copy and paste the url to me?

Are you sure your calling is recorded correctly? If it is, then either under clerk or leader resources, you should see a "Confidential" section in the "Membership" dropdown, in addition to the "Records" section. If not, double-check CDOL to make sure you're listed correctly. According to the access list, an Assistant Ward Clerk will not see this section.

Edit: Looks like thutch is only a membership clerk. This tool will not be visible to him.

I cannot seem to find the disciplinary forms online. Where do I look?

It does not show up under membership. If I don't have access, how do I get it? I am the "ward clerk", not a membership clerk, assistant clerk etc.

Did you try this?

on LDS.org: Leaders resources/membership/disciplinary councils

I am a district president and I just completed a disciplinary council report online for a member who was excommunicated but when I clicked the drop down button to select the action of the council, I discovered that the EXCOMMUNICATION option though displayed was grayed out so I couldn't select it while all others were active. Is this option not to be selected on line even though it was the decision or can't a district president excommunicate a member. More so, the report was to be sent to the mission president who needs to know the decision approve it finally before implementation but this online form did not allow me to communicate that.
Any solutions anyone?

chimaroke wrote:Is this option not to be selected on line even though it was the decision or can't a district president excommunicate a member. More so, the report was to be sent to the mission president who needs to know the decision [to] approve it finally before implementation but this online form did not allow me to communicate that.
Any solutions anyone?

If you will review Handbook 1:6.2.5 and 6.2.6 you will see why you are not able to select that option as a district president. I do not have access to the online system, so I do not know how it works in this particular situation. Perhaps you are able to send your recommendation in the text of the report. Your mission or area office should be able to assist you.

Am a District President and am trying to fill in the disciplinary Form on online but can't access it.Any thoughts?

mgkapata wrote:Am a District President and am trying to fill in the disciplinary Form on online but can't access it.Any thoughts?

I would read lajackson's response in the message before yours.