A Safe Environment for Members

Non-profits are obligated to provide a safe environment for members, one that allows for free expression without rumors, innuendo and smear tactics aimed at members in good standing who work hard to benefit the community.
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When an organization praises an individual as the member with the best productions that year, and then allows unqualified individuals to bully and harass the person, perhaps out of jealousy, the organization has a solemn duty to protect the person they praised who faces limited participation because an alleged employee is angry that someone is gifted and has talent.
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In Medford the city lawyer noted that a (now dissolving ) non-profit was acting as if it were in "Havana." Any board member not "getting with the program" of a group dubbed allegedly by one adviser to the board "the entrenched cronies" was smeared and humiliated.

One member - who left of his own volition - stood up for all citizens.  Now the Attorney General's office referenced in a written document, a response to a public records request - that "law enforcement" is involved.
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The non-profit is dissolving after a victim went to the police with charges of racism.  

There were other allegations of gay bashing and harassment by board members.   That entity is still in the process of dissolving, but what does it say about a community when people are pressured into not being able to express themselves without the threat of retaliation, bullying or loss of privileges?

To be continued