Thank you.
First of all, I think it's important to hear.... This amendment makes it sound as if it's the mission of the agencies or the members inside these agencies who have the complaints made against them to harass complainants so that they change their minds.
I find it rather offensive to even suggest that. However, there are always those “one-offs”, individuals who might overstep and interfere with an investigation. We've seen them from all sides who do that.
Does it make sense, as part of your normal process of checking in with the complainant, whoever that might be, on the status of an investigation, which is legislated, that you would ask those questions as a matter of practice anyway, such as, “Is there anything new to report?”, meaning anything along those lines that would give rise to an opportunity for them to report exactly this if it were actually happening? Is that a reasonable thing to expect from all the agencies when they check in with the complainants during an investigation?