Question

I often come across, in forums dealing with Jewish law, the question whether the person in charge of collecting the building committee fees may publish the names of those who owe money and are late with their payments on the notice board (intended only for the residents of that particular building). I’m puzzled by this question, because it seems to me that the real question that should be asked is whether that person—let’s call him the treasurer for this purpose—may conceal this information from the other residents of the building. In my view, the building committee fund is a kind of partnership, and someone who does not pay (and I’m not talking about some constraint or another that happens to almost all of us), as a regular pattern, is misappropriating the funds and violating the partnership. And whoever does not publicize that fact to the other residents is cooperating with that misappropriation. What do you think?