Tad Walch in Deseret News reports on Church explicitly allowing others to sit in on Bishop interviews.
Tad Walch, "Updated LDS policy allows another adult to sit in on leaders' interviews with children and women," Deseret News, March 26, 2018, accessed October 13, 2021
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The LDS Church's First Presidency announced significant policy changes Monday, providing direction on how bishops and stake presidencies may conduct interviews with women and children and how they counsel victims of abuse and sexual abuse.
The changes specified that children, youth and women now may invite an adult to join them in what traditionally have been personal interviews. Some had said they were uncomfortable being interviewed one-on-one by a male priesthood leader.
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