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The Tool Box needs your help to remain available. Toggle navigation Chapter Sections. Section 1. Main Section Checklist PowerPoint. Learn what it means to function as a watchdog, how to choose what kind of watchdog to be, and how to function effectively in your chosen role. What is a watchdog? Why act as a watchdog?
Who can act as a watchdog? When should you act as a watchdog? How do you act as a watchdog? What resources do you have? Remember, resources include not only money, but also people and their skills and talents, time, space, etc. What is your philosophy of activism? If you have a specific political or social agenda, you may choose to act differently than if you are simply trying to get at the facts of a situation.
Some very effective watchdogs bend over backwards to be neutral. Others make no apologies for the fact that they are advocates for a cause or a political position. There are arguments to be made for either stance, but the one you decide to take will help you determine how to approach your watchdog activities. What or whom are you watching? If your concern is the performance of the local school committee, you may not need more than a small number of volunteers with notepads and pencils to monitor it effectively.
You may be able to be much more active in having an effect on the school committee. Human rights activism may have to depend on other organizations around the world that use your findings to bring about change. Do you have opponents, and who are they? The larger and more powerful your opponents, the harder it will be to monitor the activities or policies they support.
They may try to stop your activities through the courts, or shut off your access to information. You may have to spend lots of time and money just getting access to information, and you may find roadblocks at every new corner.
What are your goals? Is this a short-term project, or something that will need to go on for many years? Are you aiming for a specific, concrete result — a change in the way a certain factory disposes of its industrial waste, for instance — or something larger and less well-defined — an improvement in economic and social conditions for the disadvantaged? Your goal and its feasibility can help you decide what kind of watchdog to be. Are you the best individual or organization to take action?
As a watchdog, your first function is to monitor and call attention to actions and policies that harm members of the community or are contrary to the public interest. There may be other groups whose function is specifically to challenge entities or governmental bodies that carry out such actions and policies. Corporations and business Watchdogs may observe the whole business arena, pay special attention to specific areas within it technology firms, for instance , or focus on the activities of particular corporations.
Media In the US, there are media watchdogs — many of them — at both ends of the political spectrum. The environment Environmental watchdogs abound around the world, from global organizations like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth International to local groups like the Millers River Watershed Council in central Massachusetts and the larger, Toronto-based Lake Ontario Keeper.
Hate groups In the U. American freedoms and civil rights Both progressive organizations, such as People for the American Way , and conservative ones like American Values and the Christian Coalition act as watchdogs to protect what they see as the core American values. Public safety The National Safety Council does research and issues reports and information to the public on such areas relating to public safety as health and medicine, fire prevention and preparedness, accidents, emergencies and disasters, and driving.
Some examples: In one community, white supremacist literature attacking minority groups was dropped anonymously on the front lawns of many community homes. After the second such incident, the local Human Rights Commission, charged with responding to such events, reacted by collecting small contributions from community members in order to publish a full-page advertisement in the local newspaper. A historical commission in a town serves in part to protect historic buildings against demolition, even if they stand in the way of new development.
If demolition of a historic building is threatened, the commission will generally get involved, informing the public about the impending destruction of a historic site; it can at the minimum delay such proceedings until a full review is completed. Local news media can serve as watchdogs as well. For example, Voice of San Diego has exposed municipal corruption in that city; similar online news organizations operate in Seattle, Minneapolis — St. Paul, Chicago, St. Louis, and New Haven, Connecticut.
Members of environmental watchdog organizations are likely to enjoy the outdoors, for instance; members of organizations that see themselves as protecting the rights of taxpayers are usually concerned about the size of their own tax bills.
To defend those with little political or economic power, and help them learn how to gain and use that power. Too often, politicians, corporations, and others with clout choose to use it at the expense of those with very little.
Funding for health and human service programs that benefit low-income families is cut at the first sign of economic difficulty. Power plants that belch smoke, highways, airports, and sewage treatment plants are often located in low-income or minority neighborhoods. To keep citizens aware of what is happening in their community and their world.
As a result, they are often able to inform the public about things that government, business, or others would rather they not know. In a democracy, it is crucial that citizens understand what their leaders and other powerful people are doing, and what the social realities are. A watchdog may reveal hidden government or corporate wrongdoing or incompetence, point out an important, but ignored, community issue that cries for resolution, or highlight the unfair or unjust treatment of particular groups or individuals.
It thus gives the public the information it needs to understand and begin to correct the situation. To maintain power in the hands of the community, rather than of those who have money or power or connections. In a democratic society, political power, by definition, rests with citizens. In too many cases, however, that power is assumed, without most people realizing it, by a small group of influential people who often use it for their own ends.
A watchdog, by making such a situation apparent, can make it possible for a community, or a nation, to maintain or reclaim that power, and to assure that everyone is playing by the same rules. To prevent bad consequences that could cost the community economically or socially. By pointing out circumstances that need to be corrected, a watchdog can help a community avoid the possibility of a lawsuit, an environmental cleanup, racial conflict, or other results that could be costly, or even disastrous.
To promote social justice and social change. Watchdog activity can help to assure that everyone is treated fairly, that all members of a community get what they need, and that people understand and support the need for change to make the community a better place to live. To maintain democratic ideals. Simple justice. Sometimes, the doings of a particular entity — a government body, a corporation, an institution, a social group — are just plain wrong. Who should act as a watchdog?
Some organizations and individuals for whom acting as a watchdog at least some of the time might be appropriate include: Agencies or organizations concerned with a particular issue. It would make sense for an environmental organization to keep an eye on the neighborhood polluter, or for an elder advocacy group to monitor the price of medications.
People affected by an issue or condition, or organizations that represent them. Professional organizations. State bar associations may act as watchdogs by scrutinizing the ethics of lawyers; the Better Business Bureau, a business organization, alerts the community to unethical or incompetent businesses. Organizations that represent the general public interest.
We referred above to such groups as Common Cause and Public Citizen, which operate nationwide. State Public Interest Research Groups keep watch over the public good at a state level. While relatively few organizations start out as multi-issue watchdogs at the local level, some evolve into that role over time.
Agencies, organizations, and individuals concerned with the economic consequences of policies, practices, and actions. Those concerned with the maintenance of democratic ideals. Smaller organizations that operate to gain publicly-funded elections, or simply to assure honest and competent government, may fill the same niche locally.
If you can show that a corporation is cheating or defrauding its shareholders, for instance, you may be able to convince legislators or officials to enact stricter laws to keep that from happening. When a new project or venture is starting or about to start, and you have doubts about its impact. When you believe the public interest is threatened. When laws or regulations act to benefit an individual or small group at the expense of the rest of the community; when an entity is engaging in practices that threaten the health, safety, economic well-being, or social stability of the community; when policies endanger the rights or interests of a particular group, especially a disenfranchised one — any of these is a good time to assume the mantle of watchdog, to protect the best interests of the community.
When an entity or individual — government or a government official, a corporation or industry, a police department, a human service program, etc. Civilian review boards — watchdogs by definition — are often set up to monitor police departments that have been shown to be prone to brutality, racism, or other abuses of power. When you receive information about actual, planned, or likely harmful or questionable actions or practices.
In such cases, you learn — from a whistle-blower, a trusted source, or your own investigations — that ethical or legal misconduct has taken place, that established procedures are not being followed, or that some form of injustice has occurred or is likely to occur.
This a classic situation where a watchdog can cast a light on dark practices and prevent abuse of the public. When democracy is actually or potentially under attack. When a political machine threatens to gain control of the political process, when a group of people is being denied their constitutional rights, or when a lobbyist or a small group or individual with deep pockets and connections seems to be calling the shots, watchdogs are desperately needed. When simple justice demands it.
When wrongdoing or blatant unfairness is going unchallenged, a watchdog might be the best defense against injustice. These might include environmental laws, rules for corporate reporting, the bylaws of the town school committee, or whatever other laws and regulations are relevant. Background information. This includes the economics, history both general and local , politics, and psychological or social issues that relate to your topic, as well as any specialized knowledge — science, for instance — you need to fully understand it.
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