Comment by akudha
4 years ago
The EFF appears not to publish board minutes, nor to have posted its constitution or charter to its site (but does advocate for transparency)
Are board minutes considered private? What is the logic behind not posting the constitution, that sounds odd...
The EFF is a 501(c)(3), so they have to file IRS form 990 and their financials are public: https://www.eff.org/about/annual-reports-and-financials
But I can't find any bylaws or board meeting minutes. I'm a bit disappointed.
What more do you expect from an organization made up of almost exclusively lawyers?
>Are board minutes considered private?
Yes.
The non-profit whose board I'm on does, I believe, have bylaws filed with the state we're incorporated in. And I know board member names (or maybe just the executive board) are filed as well. But we definitely don't have to make board minutes public.
What is that "but does advocate for transparency" even supposed to mean? EFF is not a government, it doesn't have to be transparent at all.
It's a 501c charity, so it does have to be somewhat transparent in exchange for its protected tax status.
What is hard to understand here, really? Nobody said anything about EFF having to be transparent.
That text in parenthesis is completely irrelevant to the rest of the sentence and feels cheap. It's clearly trying to convey "they advocate for transparency but aren't even transparent themselves", which is missing the point. I read it as a form of manipulation to instill particular feeling towards EFF in the reader.
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