Report of Church Disciplinary Action Form

Can this form be found on MLS?

bhead wrote:Can this form be found on MLS?

That report is in MLS under Other Resources > Confidential Reports and Forms > Report of Disciplinary Action.

A blank form can be found in MLS. If you are looking for a report of prior disciplinary action, the bishop must contact the stake where the council was held or confidential records.

crislapi wrote: If you are looking for a report of prior disciplinary action, the bishop must contact the stake where the council was held or confidential records.

The stake presidency, stake clerk and bishops can request the minutes of disciplinary councils using the Leader and Clerk Resources on lds.org. I am not sure if the ward clerks have access to this function or not.

wwoodford wrote:The stake presidency, stake clerk and bishops can request the minutes of disciplinary councils using the Leader and Clerk Resources on lds.org. I am not sure if the ward clerks have access to this function or not.

I've never used it but the option does show up for ward clerks.

crislapi wrote:If you are looking for a report of prior disciplinary action, the bishop must contact the stake where the council was held or confidential records.

Confidential Records. This now can be done as previously outlined by using Leader and Clerk Resources on lds.org.

If proper procedures have been followed, the stake where the council was held will not have a copy of the report.

Just a warning however:

At the end of the process you hit "submit" and the message comes up: "the report will be mailed to your Stake President." There is no "undo" or "nevermind."

Just so you know...

Thanks for the tips.

Interestingly, I was surprised to learn a few months ago that having the report from a previous disciplinary council when reconvening is not actually a requirement.

In most cases it's useful of course but not strictly necessary if the presiding officer doesn't require it. (An example could be where a stake president presided over a stake disciplinary council and he is reconvening the council twelve months later and remembers perfectly well what was discussed before - he doesn't have to request the previous report if he's happy to go ahead without it.)

I am assistant ward clerk (membership) I have been asked (by the bishop) to take minutes at a disciplinary but it doesn't seem i have the appropriate access to the required forms... what should I do?

I would turn over your minutes to the ward clerk, and ask him to enter them into the online form.

Is there any situation where an Executive Secretary should take notes at a disciplinary council? I was asked to do so, but don't seem to have access to the form.

gamrmf wrote:Is there any situation where an Executive Secretary should take notes at a disciplinary council? I was asked to do so, but don't seem to have access to the form.

I can't speak to the ward level, but at the stake level, there is very little reason for the stake executive secretary to attend a disciplinary council. In my book, the secretary is concerned with future events, while the clerk is tasked to record past events. The secretary ensures all interested parties are notified and invited to attend the council.
In my stake, since the stake executive secretary tended to be a high priest, we used him as the 13th man, an emergency substitute if something prevented a member of the council from attending at the last minute. He set up the Sacrament table and waited for folks to show up. When everyone had arrived, he immediately departed.
There is absolutely no reason why a secretary would record the minutes of such a council.

Read Handbook 1: 6.10. I don't see the Executive Secretary as part of the process.

gamrmf wrote:Is there any situation where an Executive Secretary should take notes at a disciplinary council? I was asked to do so, but don't seem to have access to the form.

If a clerk is not available for some reason, the presiding officer may ask someone else to take notes. That might well be the executive secretary. He would then have to give the notes to the presiding officer so that they could be entered online, either by himself, or by the clerk at another time.

You are correct that the executive secretary does not have access to the online system.