Misc. Information

I need to provide a little context for this question first. I am a new EQ president in a ward with many less active and/or difficult to find members; consequently, neither my counselors nor I know who they are, or often, where they are. However, if I look hard enough, I can often find someone that knows at least a little about how to find them or where to start looking. Is there anywhere in the leader and clerk resources to add some notes so that future/otherleaders can have access to the information? I can certainly write it down and put it in a notebook, but that doesn't necessarily make it readily available to other leaders that may need it. If there is currently no ability to do add notes like that, can it be added? Thanks!

No, there is no current way to store notes on members in LCR or other church systems. Those who make such decisions don't read the forums. If you want to make such a request, use the Feedback link at the bottom of LCR.

However, from what I have personally observed I think the likelihood of such a feature is very low. Allowing free form notes means that the church wouldn't have very strong control over what information is placed in the notes and how sensitive it is. In some jurisdictions that might expose the church to liability under privacy laws (some of which are much stricter than in the US). It could also provide bad publicity is someone frames it as the church keeping a 'dossier' on all of it's members. And if the database got hacked there could be other liabilities too.

Although it's less efficient, if all such notes are just personal notes of a leader, maintained by that leader and passed on personally to other leaders then it's just personal ministering rather than than a big organization keeping tabs on large numbers of members.

This is, of course, just my personal guess at some of the rational about why we don't have that kind of ability. I have no insider information. But I have seen this kind of request made multiple times over the last 10 years and nothing has been done so I think there are reasons.

jnhvii wrote:Is there anywhere in the leader and clerk resources to add some notes so that future/otherleaders can have access to the information?

No.

jnhvii wrote:If there is currently no ability to do add notes like that, can it be added? Thanks!

My reading of the tea leaves is that the church is very leery about any kind of free-form field for legal reasons. Even if they did do it, there's pretty good odds that you'll be released from your calling before that became a priority for the church's very small development team.