[Matt Leese]

Perhaps I missed it on my quick read over of the documentation, but I don't believe FIRST put into place any sanctions in place in case a team doesn't abide by these rules. I wonder how many teams will end up simply ignoring them? Or, more likely, teams just won't understand how to implement them and do it incorrectly.

For the vast majority of teams, I think that this policy will be useless. Almost all high school across the country already have policies aimed to discourage sexual assault. There's no need for FIRST to put together another policy to cover that. Frankly, I would think that there should be a way to waive this policy if it can be established that an adequate plan to prevent sexual abuse is already in place (i.e. one that the school district has already developed).

Declaring these restrictions onto local teams which are separate organizations than FIRST and are used to extensive autonomy is not going to accomplish much of anything. Perhaps this policy makes the lawyers happy but I was never particularly under the impression that FIRST was designed to make laywers happy.

Matt