Camron's Association has a very good ethics committee, and very well spelled out guidelines. I know this because some of the guys who get busted there come across the river and join my association! :o

We have similar processes...and the coaches around here know better than to ask other officials to come in and view a tape like that.

This little fact should be reported to your local association president as well as the state sanctioning body along with the names of the two officials that actually responded. The officials would face heavy consequences here. That's about as low as you could get. I'd definitely scratch them going forward.

Yes. We do.

There is a standing committee of 6 people with rotating 3 year appointments (2 out, 2 new each year) plus 1 board member. The people who are chosen are typically those known for making sure things are done right and some people who have careers that have dealt with such types of things...people who have a reputation of being above reproach and of being non-political. Some are attorneys, some government officials, etc.

Usually, it starts with someone registering a complaint with the board. If the board deems the complaint worthy of further investigation, they refer it to the ethics committee. The committee then does an investigation and makes a recommendation to the board. If the committee finds that no ethics violation has occurred, then it is over. The board could take action anyway but they never have. If the committee finds that their was a violation, then the board has, so far, gone with the committee's findings.

I was called on by the committee to investigate one such complaint where there were accusations of vote tampering with a recent board election. He was accused of obtaining information about the vote results (who was winning, who had or had not voted, etc.) through RefTown while it was in progress and using that information. The person that was being investigated was a strong supporter of a candidate that ultimately didn't win...and not the one I supported. With the vote being handled through RefTown, I analyzed all activity relating to the vote and found that no such activity ever occurred by the accused or by any one else and the report I wrote cleared the person on all points of the accusation. That was the end of the case.


Other have received post-season bans of up to 2 years.