Equal opportunity policy

All SL Coast Guard members shall be treated with respect, dignity and compassion. The SL Coast Guard prohibits any form of discrimination, which violates law or policy in any action affecting our Members, those seeking membership with us, and those benefiting from our public services or sponsored programs.

Toward this end, we shall:

Aggressively pursue the best qualified applicants for membership, and ensure that all people are given fair and equal treatment in membership decisions.

Evaluate personnel based on their job performance and provide advancement and retention opportunities based on demonstrated performance and policy requirements.

Take prompt, appropriate and effective measures to enforce this policy and ensure personal accountability.

Every member to be personally committed to and responsible for fair and equal treatment of all SL Coast Guard members and those with whom we interact. As we embrace this virtual world, we must lead the way by practicing nondiscriminatory behavior and showing others the benefits inherent in a diverse force.

All SL Coast Guard members are asked to help eliminate sexual harassment from our group. Evaluate your own conduct and that of those you associate with. Observe and institute changes as necessary. The fair and equal treatment of all SL Coast Guard members must not emanate solely from regulations, policies or external pressures, but from your conviction that it is the right thing to do.

The increasing diversity of our membership mandates dynamic responses if we are to meet the challenges that the Second Life environment may present. A SL Coast Guard free of sexual harassment is today’s goal and must be tomorrow’s as well.

Diversity policy

Diversity is the mix of differences and similarities at all levels of the group. We draw great strength from our differences and build on our similarities to:

- Create a positive environment based on our core values of Honor, Respect, and Devotion to Duty that will promote personal and professional development and attract new talent.

- Establish and maintain a diverse membership that reflects Second Life’s® and its most valuable resource; people.

- Promote policies, programs, and procedures that place value on diversity and individual dignity. 

- Work diligently to remove barriers that hinder our progress.

- Provide leadership that empowers all people to reach their full potential while contributing to SL Coast Guard missions. 

- Ensure that our individual actions support the spirit of this policy.

Diversity is one of our greatest strengths. I challenge each of you to make an individual commitment to this policy

Sexual Harassement Policy

All SL Coast Guard members and those engaged in business with the SL Coast Guard have the right to an environment free of discrimination and harassment. Sexual harassment is a form of gender discrimination that involves unwelcome sexual advances. Solicitation of sexual favors, or other sexually oriented verbal of physical conduct. Such behavior creates an intimidating, hostile, and offensive work place environment. This includes but is not limited to in game Instant Messages (IM’s), & Note cards.

Sexual harassment is unacceptable conduct. A member who uses or condones sexual behavior to control, influence, or job of another member engages in sexual harassment. Similarly, any resident of Second Life® who makes deliberate or repeated unwelcome verbal comments, gestures, or physical contact, which is characteristically of a sexual nature, engages in sexual harassment. 

Sexual harassment has a devastating impact on everyone. It diminishes one’s self-esteem and inhibits the performance of members. Its disruptive effect on individuals and its negative impact on morale, discipline, and productivity in Second Life® significantly reduce the SL Coast Guard’s ability to perform its missions. The SL Coast Guard will not tolerate sexual harassment in any of its forms.

No SL Coast Guard member must neither practice nor condone any form of sexual harassment. They must serve as examples of the highest personal standards and be constantly aware of work conditions and interpersonal actions around them. There can be no ambiguity about the prohibition in the SL Coast Guard of any form of sexual harassment, the positive steps that are taken to prevent it, and the level of commitment to the swift and decisive enforcement of policies. Personnel must feel free to promptly report incidents of sexual harassment.

Human relations policy

The SL Coast Guard, along with the rest of Second Life®, faces many new challenges as we continue to provide leadership in an environment where technology, ideology and demographic composition of society are changing at an unprecedented rate.

Our greatest resources for meeting the challenges of change are the members who respond in their operational and support roles, to carry out our various missions. The SL Coast Guard is committed to seeing that all SL Coast Guard members are provided the opportunity to play and develop so as to achieve enjoyment. The SL Coast Guard, with its limited resources and multiple missions, must fully utilize all of its resources.

Therefore, we must take positive steps to avoid any vestige of discrimination based on race, color. religion, gender, age, national origin, or mental or physical handicap in any thoughts of actions affecting our members, those seeking membership with us, or those entitled to benefits under any SL Coast Guard sponsored programs. In addition, we must become pro-active in working with residents around Second Life®, to ensure the smooth assimilation of all SL Coast Guard members. To do less would weaken our group and our ability to respond to our mission.

This policy is important to maintain a SL Coast Guard where each of us is morally committed to ensuring equality of opportunity for every individual, and where we all assume a personal responsibility for assuring that this concept works throughout the Service. This means that each of us must not only practice nondiscriminatory behavior, but we must also educate others regarding the benefits of a nondiscriminatory environment on the SL Coast Guard’s ability to function.

Let us lead by example in ensuring equal opportunity and fair treatment for all, as we continue our missions to the residents of Second life®.

Group intellectual property policy

It is the basic policy of this group’s founder that no member shall be required to purchase any item of clothing or equipment in order to enjoy the benefits of membership within this group. Nor shall any member be required to pay any fee (In any form) in order to participate in any SL Coast Guard group activity which is based in a virtual world.

In order to ensure the above policy is possible it is required to that all prospective, current, past members and content creators that desire to provide content to the SLCG Coast Guard and its members must do so under the following conditions.

For the purposes of clarification the term “Content” shall refer to any item of but not limited to clothing, scripts, animations, textures, photos, and or prim or mesh based creations. The group “SL Coast Guard” and its owners will accept no liability in regards to copyright laws as it pertains to items provided for use within the group. It is the contents creator/providers responsibly to ensure all local, corporate, national and international copyright and/or Intellectual laws are complied with.

Should any item provided for use within the group become subject to Intellectual Property, Content or copyright claims in accordance with agreements and or policies put into place by Linden Labs®, the member is responsible for deleting such item and no longer using it. Should the group’s owners become aware of a claim against such item(s), a group notice will be posted in world and on the groups forums as to the claim and all use of the described item(s) shall cease at that point. Therefore it is each members responsibility to read and understand any/all groups notices or forum posts.

1.   If you as a prospective member elect to accept or if a current member, maintain membership within the SL Coast Guard also known as the SLCG must agree that any content used for the group known in Second Life® as “SL Coast Guard” and or has the SLCG logo will become the sole unrestricted property of the group and its owners.

2.   All proposed content for use in the group must be approved by the group’s Commandant in writing BEFORE said content is made available to the group’s members.

3.   All approved content must be provided free of charge to the group’s members.

4.   A master copy with full permissions or "Copy and Transfer permissions"of all approved content must be provided to the group’s Commandant with the understanding that if approved it will be provided to the group’s membership at no cost to the members.

5.   Should any person not agree to the above policy they must refrain from providing content to the group and request any content already provided be withdrawn from official use with the group. All such withdrawal request must be made in writing to the group’s Commandant via NC (notecard) for the purpose of a content withdrawal request.