Any JW that has been disciplined by a judicial comiitee has the particulars of the sin he has been didsiplined for in a file kept by the elders inside a file cabinet containing other such records in that little room in the back . That information is aceesible to elders with the key to the file cabinet. Years may go by but the file remains, even when a jw dies the file remains until elders wish to throw it out. Sometimes the elderr destroy a file but only if they wish or are pressured by a fellow elder to do so .Unless they have changes the rules recently, all an elder has to do is to skim through the the sealed files and he will see the names of fellow jws even in present good standing that have a record. If the elder is bold enough or simply wishes to, he can open the envelope and read up on a bro's case history. But it is enough to see the name of a ms or a seemingly spiritual bro on such an envelope without eveb opening it and seeing what the bro did, but only to know that the bro or sis got into trouble in the past. A bro may want to forget about mistakes that yhe mademany years ago in the past and kept quite about it but he will never ever be able to because by golly even if the bro cahnges congs t a letter follows him wherever he goes and and so does the file to inform the new body so the bro feels feel cheap because he know that the elders and their wives know what he did years ago and deal with him accordingly.No one can be comfortable around others that know about their privacy. It is embarssing, intimidating, humiliating, and forces one into intimidation and a forced submissive role.
better stay out of trouble or a record will kept about what you did even after you are dead.