Anonymous Reporting Adequacy State
Class
5955471d
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#AnonymousReportingAdequacyState
Definition
State in which a licensed professional engineer who holds an obligation to report peer misconduct to a licensing board has filed or is considering filing that report anonymously rather than with a signed complaint, creating a secondary ethical question about whether anonymous reporting satisfies the reporting obligation — where a signed complaint would be preferable but an anonymous report is ethically permissible and superior to non-reporting.
Properties
Subclass of
Definition
State in which a licensed professional engineer who holds an obligation to report peer misconduct to a licensing board has filed or is considering filing that report anonymously rather than with a signed complaint, creating a secondary ethical question about whether anonymous reporting satisfies the reporting obligation — where a signed complaint would be preferable but an anonymous report is ethically permissible and superior to non-reporting.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Engineer A had provided an anonymous complaint to the engineering licensing board regarding the misconduct of Engineer B
TTL
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<http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#AnonymousReportingAdequacyState> a owl:Class ;
rdfs:label "Anonymous Reporting Adequacy State" ;
rdfs:comment "State in which a licensed professional engineer who holds an obligation to report peer misconduct to a licensing board has filed or is considering filing that report anonymously rather than with a signed complaint, creating a secondary ethical question about whether anonymous reporting satisfies the reporting obligation — where a signed complaint would be preferable but an anonymous report is ethically permissible and superior to non-reporting." ;
rdfs:subClassOf <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#State> .
Metadata
Ontology
Type
Class
Content Hash
5955471d2950223e...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
19
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-02-25T15:41:41.300245+00:00
First Discovered In Case
19
Generated
2026-02-25T15:41:41.300245+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 19 Extraction