New York, September 26, 2023 – Diligent, a leading GRC SaaS company, today announced the launch of Policy Publisher for Diligent Community, the governance management solution from the team behind BoardDocs, that empowers school boards to effortlessly manage the entire policy lifecycle from creation to adoption. With an easy-to-navigate interface, robust search functionality, sophisticated shared document management tools, and more, Policy Publisher for Diligent Community promises to radically simplify every step of the policy process, ensuring that district leaders, board members, and the community have access to the information they need.

“Developing and adopting policy is the most important function of a school board," said Nonie Dalton, VP of Product Management for Diligent’s Mission Driven Organizations group. "With Policy Publisher for Diligent Community, all the extraneous work around policy creation is simplified and streamlined, allowing board members to focus on what really matters—reviewing and approving policy, while ensuring the appropriate transparency for their community."

School districts have been in an era of digital transformation, with technology playing an ever-more-important role in driving security, engagement, and trust. Policy Publisher for Diligent Community furthers this trend, simplifying agenda and meeting management and ensuring greater levels of transparency and community engagement through its secure and streamlined process. The new solution allows school board members to:

• Effortlessly create policy: Drafting, editing and collaboration are made easier than ever, with a Microsoft Word integration allowing for a modern and intuitive approach to crafting policies customizable to each district's needs.
• Accelerate the approval process: Intuitive and customizable workflows ensure policies reach the right individuals and committees seamlessly, saving much-needed time.
• Pinpoint active policies from any prior date: Policy changes can be tracked with precision, with robust version controls offering a transparent record of every modification and a history of previous policies and approval dates.
• Optimize the voting process: Policies can be added to the agenda at the click of a button, and then swiftly adopted through the digital voting tools in Policy Publisher.
• Increase public accessibility and trust: Adopted policies can be easily published to your manual and public website, enhancing trust and engagement and reducing public records requests by providing constituents with self-serve access to the district’s active policy information.
• Protect sensitive data: Policy Publisher safeguards documents through advanced security features and permissions.

"The policy management process is a critical responsibility of the school board. In order to respond to legislative and societal changes, the process of policy creation, revision and adoption must be timely and efficient", added Dalton. "Constituents expect greater visibility into the work of their school board, and Policy Publisher ensures that internal and external stakeholders have a single source of truth for current and historical policies in their district."

About Diligent

Diligent is a leading GRC SaaS company that gives organizations the tools and solutions they need to bring clarity to complex risk, elevate impactful insights and get ahead of a world that is constantly changing. With solutions across governance, risk, compliance, audit and ESG, Diligent empowers more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members and leaders to make better decisions, faster. No matter the challenge. Learn more at diligent.com.