Ombudsman mass reforms.
20260520-1 \\ ??? words \\ Passed \\ No summary
Preamble: Consti has issues, I want this out, now, sooo, this comes out here https://www.reddit.com/r/TeenGovernment/comments/1ti54ta/defending\_the\_document\_to\_the\_public\_on\_the/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button https://www.reddit.com/r/TeenGovernment/comments/1ti564q/defending\_the\_document\_p2/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button Definitions: The Ombudsman is the official investigative officer of the Teen Government community. Critical information is considered as significant information, Section I: Outlined powers and handling of misinformation. Article 1: The Ombudsman has access to all Teen Government servers, this includes any server which fulfills the following conditions. a) : The server conducts Teen Government governmental actions (Court, lawsuit servers). b) : A server which connects directly to Teen Government, this includes all party servers, coalition servers, business/company servers. Article II: The Ombudsman has a legal requirement to uphold any investigation request created within their official Teen Government server, unless one of the following occurs. (a); Investigating must bring, provable, harm onto the Ombudsman. (b): Investigating would go against beliefs of the Ombudsman. (ie: Being forced to investigate TeenGoo) (c): The Investigation request does not specify a specific crime or reason for the investigation. (d): The investigation does not specify the individual being investigated. (e): The investigation would be investigating multiple individuals, a party(s), coalition(s), or group(s) Article IV: If an Ombudsman intentionally spreads misinformation through their investigation, and an individual proves the misinformation, then a strike system shall occur. Each violation shall give a strike, and the following strikes give their set disciplinary action. (a): One strike: The Ombudsman must publicly apologize and admit their failure, and where the shortcoming occurred. Must be done in a minimum of 3 sentences, this must be posted in the Ombudsman server, the official server, and SMP (b): Two strikes, the Ombudsman is to be suspended from all investigative powers for 48 hours post proved violation. The Ombudsman is also to apologize once more, 5 minimum sentences, posted within the Ombudsman server, Official server, and SMP. (c) : The Ombudsman is to be impeached and proper special election processes shall occur. For any of the following to occur, an individual must have given proof, that without a reasonable doubt, the Ombudsman spread intentional misinformation, and failed to withhold their roles position. Section 2: Ombudsman treatment under the law. Article I: The Ombudsman may not be impeached, discriminated against, or put under hate for an investigation requested in the official Ombudsman server. Article II: The Ombudsman must investigate any individual, as such, they are to be granted access to the Council server, any cabinet meeting, access to all judiciary trials/hearings (excluding private trials). Article III: If an Ombudsman witnesses misconduct, a violation of a law, or generally corrupt activity via a government official, they have a legal obligation to report it the same way as any investigation. Article IIII: An Ombudsman retains the legal right and authority to call for the impeachment of any official, yet they must do the following conditions. (a): The Ombudsman must have investigated and reported conduct that may fall under grounds of corruption, general rule violations, or misconduct by a member of the government. (b): The trial is to go to the council, in which the Vice President is to preside over the council, and hence is to be given all acting powers of a presiding Judge. Under the circumstance it’s an impeachment trial towards the President or the Vice President themselves, the chief Justice gains this authority in their stead. Council gains the power of jurors. (c) : The Ombudsman is to act as a direct witness to the trial, and may not act as prosecutor. (c)1) The prosecution of this trial is to be done by asking who wishes to prosecute, which any member who consents is to be voted upon via council vote, if a council member is the one under risk of impeachment, they may not vote upon this. This process is to occur as follows. A SMP post is to be created via the Speaker of Council (if they are under impeachment risk, this power falls onto Chief Justice). This is to be shared onto the official Discord page. Once 24 hours pass, all individuals who give consent are to be given to the council. They are to be given the following by the individual who created the post “{Username} for prosecution.” This prosecution may have a lawyer, or may do this on their own. If the prosecution has an obvious bias or conflict of interest, then the acting Chief Justice may remove them, alongside consent of the Speaker of Council. Yet, this is to be considered a last resort. And considered null if either of the two are under impeachment hearings. (c)2) The individual with the highest votes is to act as prosecutor, under the case of a tie, the Vice President may break a tie break, if the Vice President is at risk of impeachment, then it is the decision of a public vote. (c)3) The public vote is to occur as follows. A google form is to be posted by the Election Minister (if they’re the one under threat of impeachment, the President takes this power). This google form is to have the following. The usernames of the individuals who tied, as separate choices. A box for the voter code of the individual. A box for the username of the user. Once this process occurs, that individual is considered the acting Prosecution member of the impeachment hearing. yet may request a lawyer, and the member up to impeachment is permitted a lawyer, under request. (d): Normal trial functions are to occur, once the trial concludes, the council is to vote upon whether impeachment is needed or not. (e): The previous is to occur within the official council chat, hence all prosecution, defense, and witnesses are to be permitted within this server until the conclusion of the trial. Article VI: Under the circumstance the Ombudsman is unavailable, or generally incapable of being a witness, then their compiled evidence is to be granted to the prosecution. Section 2: Handling of harassment and abuse of the Ombudsman system. Article I: An individual may only be investigated for a crime(s) once, once the investigation concludes they may not be reinvestigated for that exact crime(s). This does not extend towards general laws violated, simply making investigation for the same crime or subject. Article I is considered null and void under the circumstances another, elected, Ombudsman is doing the investigative action. Section 3: Interaction with council. Article I: The Ombudsman is to have access to all council related servers, chats, or general areas of communication. Article II: If the Ombudsman finds proof of screenshots not added within transparency posts, they may publicly reveal this information, proof that transparency failed to occur, the Ombudsman may call for the impeachment of the one responsible for the Transparency posts. Article III: The Ombudsman is prohibited from sending messages within council servers, chats, or general areas of communication. Section 4: Interaction with the executive branch. Article I: Interaction with the Census Minister. (a): The Ombudsman, if given an investigation request, may demand the current census results, at any moment, they may not be given the Voter Codes unless a Voter Fraud investigation is ongoing. (b): The Ombudsman may not share any information within the Census without proof of a committed crime within them, and they may not share Voter Codes under any circumstance. (c): If, within this investigation, failure to do proper duties is found, the Ombudsman may call for the impeachment of the Census Minister. This is to be done under the processes underlined within Section II, Article IIII. Article II: Interaction with the Election Minister. (a): The Ombudsman, if an investigation is given, may demand the current election standing, alongside Voter Codes, this may only occur in the circumstance of Voter Fraud. (b): The Ombudsman may not share or release any information, unless evidence of a crime is found, yet Voter Codes may not be released. (c): If, within this investigation, failure to do proper duties is found, the Ombudsman may call for the impeachment of the Election Minister. This is to be done under the processes underlined within Section II, Article IIII. Article III: Interaction with the Foreign Affairs Minister. (a):The Ombudsman has the legal right and authority, if under an investigation request, to demand access to any treaties or in progress Foreign Affairs actions. (b): The Ombudsman is prohibited from adding, removing, or sharing the contents of the treaties, without proof of a crime being done within them by the Foreign Affairs Minister. : (c): If, within this investigation, failure to do proper duties is found, the Ombudsman may call for the impeachment of the Foreign Affairs Minister. This is to be done under the processes underlined within Section II, Article IIII. Article IIII: Interaction with the Minister of Press. (a): If the Ombudsman, under request, witnesses or has proof of unfair treatment within the Minister of Press (i.e Failure to post Transparency posts in a timely manner) (b): If, within this investigation, failure to do proper duties is found, the Ombudsman may call for the impeachment of the Minister of Press. This is to be done under the processes underlined within Section II, Article IIII. Article V: Interaction with unlabeled Minister positions. (a) If, within this investigation, failure to do proper duties is found, the Ombudsman may call for the impeachment of the Minister. This is to be done under the processes underlined within Section II, Article IIII. Article VI: Interaction with the President. (a): If, within this investigation, failure to do proper duties is found, the Ombudsman may call for the impeachment of the President. This is to be done under the processes underlined within Section II, Article IIII. Article IX: Interaction with the Vice President. (a): If, within this investigation, failure to do proper duties is found, the Ombudsman may call for the impeachment of the Vice President. This is to be done under the processes underlined within Section II, Article IIII. (b): The Vice President has the power and authority to bring the impeachment of the Ombudsman to council, yet may only do so under the occurrence it fulfills a violation, violations as outlined within Section 5, Article II(a). Section 5: General. Article I: No individual with an extensive criminal record, (i.e: Rule 1 or 8 violations, violations of a serious crime, a history of fraud or corruption, general failure to fulfill proper duties. Article II: The Ombudsman may only be impeached if they violate the following. (a): Failure to investigate once requested S5AII(a) is considered null and void under the following circumstances. The request investigates 3 or more individual(s). The request would be impossible to complete without clear conflict of interest (including political party affiliation, religious reasons, moral reasons, close affiliation with the individual or party being investigated. The request would invade personal privacy of an individual, including their identity, name, address, personal information, or personal life. Interpretation shall occur. The previous is to be approved via the acting Vice President of Teen Government, if the reasoning is approved then the investigation is considered null and void, if rejected the legal obligation to investigate occurs. Refusal may be appealed to the Judiciary, in which all acting Justices are to vote upon whether the Vice President’s rejection holds. Failure to investigate, post process, is grounds for impeachment. (b): Intentionally leaving out critical information or screenshots from the results of the investigation. (c) : Holding All previous is to be enforced via the Vice President, it is their legal duty to be aware of violation of the previous, and are to call for impeachment if violation occurs. Section 6: Impeachment. Article I: Impeachment must be called upon via the acting Vice President, it is prohibited from any other individual from doing so, other than the circumstance there is no acting Vice President in the moment, in that circumstance, the President assumes this power temporarily. Article II: The process of impeachment is to occur as the following. (a): The Vice President declares a violation of the previously listed terms occurred. (b): The Vice President is to write two messages within the Council chat, which are to state the following “Did the Ombudsman violate {Violated clause}” “Should the Ombudsman be impeached”. (c) : Council vote is to occur, this bypasses all waiting periods. (d): The voting options are to be “Aye” for guilty of, “Nay” for innocent of, Abstain for no opinion. (e): The Vice President is permitted to tie break upon this. Once voting occurs, the following will occur. (a): If a guilty verdict for the violation brought by the Vice President is decided, alongside an impeachment vote, the Ombudsman is to be removed from power, and a special election shall occur. (b): If a guilty verdict, for the violation brought by the Vice President, yet the impeachment vote is innocent, the Ombudsman is to post a public apology, this is to be done upon both the official SMP, alongside the official Discord, and is to be within official Sub and Discord News. (c): If an innocent verdict, for the violation brought by the Vice President, yet an impeachment vote is given, the Impeachment is considered null and void. (d): If an innocent verdict, for the violation brought by the Vice President, and an impeachment vote is innocent, then no consequences occur to the Ombudsman. Section 7: Independence of office. Article I: No President shall sign an executive order, of which, would directly limit the powers of the Ombudsman. Proper legislation alongside a proper judicial verdict is the only manner of which an Ombudsman shall ever or may ever be restricted via the Government. Article II:The only legislation, which may successfully limit the Ombudsman, is a constitutional amendment upon this very document. Failure to do so, via creation of an act or bill, shall be considered a non constitutional change. All previous changes to the Ombudsman, done without them being an amendment, are to be grandfathered in, and considered valid. Article III: No individual shall hold office of Ombudsman and any other office, an Ombudsman is strictly prohibited from holding any government official, not only Higher Offices. Article IV: If an Ombudsman runs for another position, they are considered to have resigned, and they are to lose their seat immediately, not once they win or lose the election. In which, a special election shall occur. Article V: The Ombudsman is prohibited from investigating themselves, or any actions they themselves have done or violated. Article VI: The following is to be all conflict of interests the Ombudsman may not violate. The Ombudsman is prohibited from investigating an institution they are apart of. This extends to office, business, organization, non-profit, NGO, or Government organizations. The Ombudsman is prohibited from working outside of their proper sector, hence may not investigate in real life violations, may not investigate personal information, or any non directly Teen Government related activity.
Metadata
Internal ID: 501
API access: /501.json
Bill proposed(Unix Epoch): 1779239612
Proposer: Trickster-123
Original link: OMBUDSMAN MASS REFORMS
Approval link: N/A
ARPD-Curator: Floyd B. Olson Fan
Recorded by tracker: 2026-05-23 16:07:09
