With recent events I’ve been reading through the Criminal Code, and was surprised by the fact that the Admiralty wasn’t an institution for releasing info in the Espionage section, as the Admiralty handles a significant amount of private information with defender and SPSF operations. Quite a few people I’ve VCed with in the past week have been surprised as well. Given the amount of private information the SPSF and Admiralty handles, the Admiralty should be mentioned as the relevant institution for the SPSF. Currently with how the Espionage section is written, it leaves the Cabinet technically in charge of SPSF information, when the Cabinet as an institution has no relation to most private information that passes through the SPSF.
I propose the following amendment to the Criminal Code:
People who write laws aren’t likely to think of every possible loophole or possible future contingency, it’s why the Assembly has the power to amend legislation when necessary.
I guess this also goes back to an old debate about “who exactly is in charge of the SPSF”. With the laws that we have now, and the nature of actual military gameplay, it is probably fair to have the Admiralty - which legally also consists of the PM or their appointed designee - be in charge of SPSF private information.
I’m somewhat biased here as a member of the Admiralty, but given that the majority of the Cabinet doesn’t get access to SPSF spaces to begin with, this is an obvious support.
While we’re at it, shouldn’t we also fix the reference to “The Cabinet”? That language is from back when we had “The Cabinet” as a collective head of government. Now, we have the Prime Minister as the head of government and all authority of their Cabinet is ultimately derived from them—they should be the sole decider rather than creating the ambiguity of collective Cabinet decision-making.