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Local Government Practice April 29, 2015

How to Create an Inspector General's Office (Legislation and Charter Amendment)

The bill creating the Inspector General Office Jax 2014-519 The bill putting it on the ballot to extend the jurisdiction of the IG office to all independent authorities (Electric, Port, Transportation, Airport, and all elected constitutional officers.) The referendum passed in March 2015. Jax 20…

April 29, 2015

Speech given to OGE by Dennis Thompson

The Paradoxes of Political EthicsDennis F. Thompson Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy Emeritus - Harvard UniversityGovernment Ethics ConferenceOffice of Government EthicsVirginia Beach, VirginiaSeptember 11-13, 1991Good afternoon: members of the “priesthood of ethics counselo…

Resources & Learning April 29, 2015

Institutional Corruption: Course summary for ethics professionals

Ethical Reasoning: Institutional Corruption was a course held from January 28, 2014 through May 26, 2014 at Harvard College. It was taught by Lawrence Lessig (Law School) and William E. English. The course consisted of 26 lectures and accompanying materials. Course description: Institutions make…

Resources & Learning April 29, 2015

Future of Ethics Training: Trends

Francesca Gino, Bidhan (Bobby) Parmar and Julia LeeTo build on the gains made in recent years, ethics training will have to accomplish several goals. First, ethics training needs to focus on unleashing participants’ intrinsic motivation to be ethical, rather than rely on solely on a compliance men…

April 28, 2015

Promo piece: Government Ethics Toolkit

Local Government Practice April 27, 2015

Protecting Whistleblowers: Best Practices for Promoting Ethics in Government

Protecting Whistleblowers:Best Practices for Promoting Ethics in Governmentby Dana L. Gold[1]Senior Fellow, Government Accountability ProjectThe Government Accountability Project is the nation’s leading whistleblower protection organization. Through litigating whistleblower cases, publicizing conce…

April 27, 2015

Tallahassee Referendum

Huffington Post article on the 11/4 referendum... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/04/tallahassee-anti-corruption_n_6104054.html

April 20, 2015

About City Ethics

CITY ETHICS is a non-profit organization formed in 2000. Its purpose is to provide a centralized location for information and resources for all forms of local government ethics programs. City Ethics was started by attorney and former federal prosecutor Carla Miller and her husband, Don McClintock, …

Resources & Learning April 20, 2015

City Ethics Publications

NEW! The Regulation of Local Lobbying. The first book on the subject of local government lobbying is now available. By Robert Wechsler, Director of Research-Retired.Local Government Ethics Programs in a Nutshell, a free 27-page introduction to the topic. By Robert Wechsler, Director of Research-Ret…

Resources & Learning April 20, 2015

Books of Interest

Most books of relevance to local government ethics deal with administrative ethics, that is, the ethical behavior of government administrators, rather than with conflicts or government ethics programs. However, they do deal partially with government ethics, and it is valuable to see how government …

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