Suppose there’s a case of unwelcome sexual advances to a person B that person A just won’t stop. To prevent “the evidence” to the public could well be traumatic to B, especially given the dynamics of public “debate”.
But I don’t think it’s really much better under the proposal unless the Board also changes its rules to make “boot the member” votes secret too (see my reply to Thomas a few msgs up).
So I expect that’s an inevitable change that’s not yet been acknowledged.
After that, the situation is radically different: it’s possible that nobody outside of A, B, the CoC WG, and the Board will ever hear about it. Person A will just vanish.
But that’s just my speculation. It certainly merits a reply from the proposers.