Safeguarding and escalation

A separate route for concerns

Report conduct, privacy, project treatment, partner representation, community interaction, accessibility, safety, or other ecosystem risks. Name and email are optional unless you request follow-up.

Before using this form

This is not an emergency service

What can be reported

Use the category that best fits

Conduct, harassment, discrimination, or retaliation

Share only the minimum information needed to understand and route the concern.

Privacy or confidentiality

Share only the minimum information needed to understand and route the concern.

Project treatment, labor, compensation, or ownership

Share only the minimum information needed to understand and route the concern.

Partner or professional representation

Share only the minimum information needed to understand and route the concern.

Community or one-on-one interaction

Share only the minimum information needed to understand and route the concern.

Accessibility, safety, deception, or another ecosystem risk

Share only the minimum information needed to understand and route the concern.

Confidentiality and review

Honest limits before submission

  • We aim to acknowledge a concern within 2 business days and begin an initial review within 5 business days. Complex, sensitive, or high-volume matters may take longer. These are targets, not guarantees.
  • Name and email may be omitted unless follow-up is requested.
  • Anonymity cannot be promised, including where details identify the situation indirectly.
  • Information may need to be shared on a limited basis for safety, fair review, applicable law, or another person’s rights.
  • ECL does not claim trained safeguarding staff or promise a specific investigation or outcome.
  • Retaliation against reporters, witnesses, reviewers, or people seeking reconsideration is not accepted.

Concern form

Submit the minimum information needed

Online submission

Report a concern

Required and optional fields are identified. Do not include sensitive information beyond what the form explicitly requests.

Share only what is needed for review. This form is not an emergency service.

By submitting, you confirm the information is accurate and may be reviewed for this pathway. Read the Privacy Policy.

Alternate contact: ethicalcapacitylab@gmail.com. Email is not guaranteed to be more secure; do not send sensitive attachments or extensive evidence without arranging a safer method.

After submission

Acknowledge, clarify, route, or review

A human reviewer may acknowledge, clarify, set an immediate boundary, refer the issue, begin an initial review, or explain that the matter is outside current authority. A response does not guarantee confidentiality, a finding, consequence, remedy, or external escalation.