Public Relations S.O.P

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The first and foremost task of any employee of the Department of Public Relations is the maintenance of exactly that: Public Relations. Whether it be between nations or businesses or departments, Public Relations must be maintained at all costs.

Pursuant to this, all employees are required, to the best of their ability, to file any and all paperwork given to them within the department and from others into the appropriate archive, and to dispense paperwork as needed. Employees are also to be made aware that any and all paperwork which is not given to the Department of Public Relations shall be considered legally null and void, and may warrant a future audit.

## Archive Security

The Archive for paperwork shall consist of three levels of security: public, confidential, secret, and top secret. Unless otherwise specified, documents are to be assumed to be filed in the public security level.

The Confidential section of the Archive shall consist solely of departmental administrivia directly related to individuals (e.g. employee information forms or a application/departure form of any department, though permits, fines, licenses, contracts, and appeal forms are exempted from this section).

The Secret section of the Archive shall consist of two sections: voting ballots, be it from the Representative Congress or the Council Board, and audit records, for the first section, and for the second, all records on intelligence domestic and foreign (barring those of such sensitivity that the Public Relations Director or Asset Protection Director shall exempt).

The Top Secret section of the Archive shall consist of those items deemed sensitive enough for the level on the authority of the Public Relations Director, Asset Protection Director, or the Chief Executive Officer.

All Class D citizens shall have access to the public archive, the Confidential section shall be restricted to Class B citizens and above, the Secret section shall be accessible to Class A citizens, whilst the intelligence subsection of that section shall be accessible to Directors, and the Top Secret section shall be accessible only by the PR Director, AP Director, CEO, or those individuals so authorized by the former.

## Applications and Departures

Whether it be an application to the Department of Public Relations to join or to be promoted or transferred to a different section of the department, all applications must be signed by the applicant and by the necessary management authority (a Public Relations Officer or above) before being copied and filed, the copy being distributed to the applicant.

As for departures, they must be filled out in full by the appropriate management authority (Public Relations Officer or higher) before being copied and filed, the copy being distributed to the applicant.

## Audits

When an audit is opened by the Public Relations Director, it becomes the responsibility of the Vice Public Relations Director to lead the audit (unless delegated to another person by the Public Relations Director).

Audits must not exceed a maximum of ten days in duration, and any and all reports on audits are to be filed in the Secret section of the Archive.

## Administrative Failure Procedures

In the event that a department has been declared in administrative failure and the Department of Public Relations is designated as the department to take over, the Vice Public Relations Director shall assume, for all intents and purposes, the functional Directorship of that department, and coordinate all efforts to managing that department, barring overrule by the Public Relations Director.

## Administrative Structure

The Department of Public Relations shall be structured bottom-to-up respectively: Public Relations Intern, Public Relations Secretary, Public Relations Officer, Vice Public Relations Director, and Public Relations Director.

Each position is subordinate to the orders of the one(s) above it, and must respect their authority. Interns shall handle the day-to-day work of the department, led by Secretaries who will keep the teams of interns organized and on track. Officers shall handle hiring and firing and will serve, effectively, as supervisors to insure proper quality of work and to make sure the Secretaries are properly fulfilling their duties. The Vice Public Relations Director is the hand of the Director, and exacts total control and involvement in almost every aspect of the department's functioning, and the Public Relations Director has the power to control anything and everything (and will also assign classes when doled out by the Representative Congress), but typically will be focused on big picture items and will not participate in the day-to-day of the department.

## Attainment and Retainment of Citizenship

Citizenship shall be granted to individuals on a strictly individual basis, following a low-tier background check and an interview whereby the interviewing Secretary or Intern may recommend or not recommend citizenship for the applicant pending approval by an Officer or other higher up.

Citizenship may be removed by Officers or higher only on the basis of conduct (e.g. High Crimes, demotion to Class E, extreme destabilizing behavior).