Would Joe Paterno have been in trouble if he had violated chain of command by going straight to law enforcement with the report he had heard about Sansdusky rather than following established protocol by passing it on to his superiors?
Don’t think so. The PSU president already disliked him and wanted him out. Paterno would have been protected under whistleblower laws. Had he reported it, he would have been a true real Paterno, instead of a fake one.
It might help if you had been paying at least a vague amount of attention.
JoPa is on the board of The Second Mile. The responsibilities that come with that make him a mandatory reporter and indeed these are the responsibilities that are going to have him in hot water as this plays out. There is nobody who is over him in a chain of command as regards his position with The Second Mile, so the question itself is moot.
JoPa’s position with the university is secondary.