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HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 7 MARCH 1965
Issue III
Gen Non-Remimeo
Post Org Public
Boards
HCO (DIVISION 1)
JUSTICE
OFFENSES & PENALTIES
These are the penalties we have always more or less used, and these are
the offenses which have been usually considered offenses in Scientology.
Formerly they were never written down or routinely enforced, there was
no recourse, and these lacks made staff members uncertain of their fate.
They knew something happened but not why. They knew certain things were
frowned on but not how much or little. The penalties were suddenly
administered without warning as to what they would be or for what offense.
This then is a Code of Discipline which we have almost always more or
less used, made plain for everyone to see, with limits against over-
punishment and recourse for those who are wronged.
Accordingly this Code of Offenses and their penalties becomes firm and
expressed policy.
Lack of specified offenses, penalties and recourse brings everyone to
uncertainty and risk at the whim of those in command.
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There are four general classes of crimes and offenses in Scientology.
These are ERRORS, MISDEMEANORS, CRIMES AND HIGH CRIMES.
1. ERRORS. Errors are minor unintentional omissions or mistakes. These
are auditing "goofs"; minor alter-is of tech or policy; small instructional
mistakes; minor errors or omissions in performing duties and admin errors
not resulting in financial loss or loss of status or repute for a senior.
Errors are dealt with by corrections of the person, reprimand or
warnings by seniors.
Certificates, Classifications and Awards may not be cancelled or
suspended or reduced for an Error. The offender may not be transferred or
demoted or fined or suspended for Committing an Error. No Committee of
Evidence may be convened because of an Error.
Repeated corrections, warnings or reprimands by a senior can, however,
bring the repeated error offenses into the category of Misdemeanor.
2. MISDEMEANORS. These are non-compliance; discourtesy and
insubordination; mistakes resulting in financial or traffic loss;
commissions or omissions resulting in loss of status or the punishment of a
senior; neglect or gross errors resulting in the need to apply the
Emergency Formula to their person, section, unit, department, organization,
zone or Division; knowing and repeated departures from standard technology,
instructional procedures or policy; continued association with squirrels;
abuse or loss or damage of org materiel; waste of org materiel; waste of
funds; alteration of senior policy or continued ignorance of it; consistent
and repeated failures to wear their hat regarding Dev-T; refusing an E-
Meter check; refusing auditing when ordered by a higher authority;
disturbing a course or class; disrupting a meeting; the discovery of their
having an undisclosed criminal background in this lifetime; the discovery
of an undisclosed tenure in a mental hospital; processing a known Trouble
Source or the family or adherents of a Suppressive Person or Group;
omissions resulting in disrepute or financial loss; inadequate or declining
income or traffic in a section, unit, department, org, zone or Division;
assisting the inadequacy or decline of income or traffic in a section,
unit, department, org, zone or Division; failure to acknowledge, relay or
comply with a direct and legal order from an executive staff member;
Auditor's Code breaks resulting in a disturbance of the preclear; failure
to follow the Instructor's Code resulting in disturbed students;
contributing to a crime;