No person under sentence or awaiting a Committee of Evidence may validly petition the Office of LRH.

A petition may only be submitted before or after the full course of Scientology Ethics has been taken.

As all Ethics actions such as a Committee of Evidence are reviewed, in effect a line already exists due to the Ethics action and the facts will be on it.

Therefore a communication from a person under legal sentence from Ethics Officers or a person named in a Comm Ev may not petition. Ethics actions must be permitted to take their course.

A protest from Ethics actions worded as a petition routinely causes further investigation as the “petitioner” is actually only protesting Ethics actions and is handled as such.

[Note: The wording of the first sentence, fourth paragraph of the above Policy Letter, has been amended from the original mimeo issue which read: “Therefore a communication from a person under legal sentence from Ethics Officers or a person named in a Comm Ev may not petition.” ]