Came across this today, someone I know heavily involved with this, but what is it? and why is it confidential? Is it just the updated form of the old huge book with everyone's in the wards records? And does this make it easier for them to keep track of naughties?

this person works tscc.

It contains the recorded conversation of every Bishop's interview with every member of the church, since the practice was started in 1973.


Or it's just a list of all the current Relief Society recipes for cupcakes.

No way. I saw the big book in my house when dad was ward clerk and I know it was in the lates70''s. They do not record everything, no way!!!!

Fuck. Are you serious? I can see it now .......shit. Talking about blow jobs and smoking pot and masturbation. And i'm a female.

Oh and the whole oral sex thing. So does that mean every interview at the bishops house too?

Nah, there is no way. That means we could go back and sue tscc for their treatment of my sexual abuse, etc.

I get that they do that now, but in the 70's?

I think the previous poster was poking fun. Or maybe it really is the Relief Society cupcake recipes.

Isn't it crazy that someone can even believe something said in jest like this? It's just that so many things in moism are so crazy, so outside societal norms, so deceitful, that in the case of this church, this could be true.

It could be referring to the digitization of old paper-based and microfilm records from the confidential records repository. I know people who were involved in digitizing all patriarchal blessings years ago and heard it mentioned that confidential records was the next large paper-to-digital conversion job. I believe a large portion of the records are disciplinary court proceedings.

It is one of the many ways that Jesus expresses His love.

The only other person that would keep those kind of records is Santa Clause.

It is online version of the record keeping for church discipline, excommunications, and name removal. In the old days, when any action was taken that effected membership, a form was filled out and attached to a physical membership record. Now it an electronic record that only Bishops and Clerks can log into (probably higher ups as well). I believe it is also used to track actions like cancellation of sealings so divorced people can remarry in the temple, etc.

Won't that be fun when some bishops kid sees the password written down in dads book of passwords.

madalice Wrote:
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> Won't that be fun when some bishops kid sees the
> password written down in dads book of passwords.


Totally. Some unauthorized readers have presumably gotten into the records when they were in book form as well, but the potential would seem much worse with electronically stored records.

Yeah, all of your sins end up on the www because some genius twelve year old hacked the church computers. Then you'll have people data mining to get lists of women who have certain fetishes, or child molesters looking for new victims who have experience. Let TSCC explain that. "... I don't know that we keep records like that".

The usual records are stored in electronic form now. Births, marriages, childbirths, disciplinary actions, etc. They even keep track of people who are listed as "do not contact" by choice or because a bishop/branch president has chosen to blacklist them.

So does that mean that us resigned mo's are still in this computer database?

I would imagine yes. But isn't that illegal or whatever?