Liability Waivers and NDAs for shadowing case workers

[owenjoseph]

trafficstars

Overview

In order to protect contributors, Hack for LA, and LA Family Housing, we've been looking into documents that will defend the interest of all parties against liability.

Jon Deutsch from Hack for LA has mentioned NDAs and sensitivity training regarding interactions between volunteer contributors and LAFH's clients.

@ExperimentsInHonesty, in her capacity as a hacknight host, has expressed concern regarding contributors' activities and the liability to which those activities could expose the organization and other contributors.

Action Items

• [x] Get NDAs from Jon D
• [x] review NDAs / send back to Jon D with comments
• [x] have interested contribs sign
• [x] Source liability waiver protecting H4LA and team members
• [ ] review liability waiver / modify if needed
• [ ] have interested team members sign waivers

Questions

• Any other documentation we need to complete before going on site to shadow case workers?
• Do we want all team members to sign the NDAs from LAFH or just those volunteering to shadow?

[owenjoseph]

Ok. . . we signed a version of what LAFH sent to us w/ some revisions, but we don't have a great finalized version of this document: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1bbZvrOoWxAHCgDIoKdWgYezLSbtlMFh2

The relationship between HfLA, LAFH, and the volunteers is better, but this language about data and solutions produced as a result of the collaboration being proprietary has got to go. LAFH folks are aware and have already expressed support, understanding that everything we develop is open-source (it's also explained in the project brief) but we need a revised version from their legal team to really cover us for onsite visits (and we plan on a few).

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Forward NDA to Code for America for approval.