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According to <a href="http://www.dallascityhall.com/committee_briefings/briefings0110/ECO_Mun…; target="”_blank”">a
January 15 memorandum</a>, a week from today the Dallas city council

When I started getting involved with my town's government several years ago, I
quickly found that limited access to budget and other
financial information was a serious problem. The town government would not even put the
annual budget online, despite the fact that my town has town meetings
to discuss the budget and a budget referendum thereafter. It was clear
that the board of selectmen and the department heads did not want the
public to be able to prepare for these meetings and ask difficult
questions.<br>
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Assuming you can learn a lot from the mistakes made in local government
ethics matters in cities and towns other than your own, there is a
great deal to learn from a simple ethics matter that, through a number
of mistakes, oversights and, apparently, partisanship has been turned
into a big issue in the city of <a href="http://www.torringtonct.org&quot; target="”_blank”">Torrington</a>
(CT; pop. 36,000). There's also a lesson to be learned about the

"My e-mail boxes are full of angry letters about [former Baltimore
mayor] Dixon's retirement
package being left intact. The deal to resolve this case and get Ms.
Dixon out of office seems to have sparked more public emotion than the
mayor's transgressions." (<a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.rodricks10jan10,0,…

As I mentioned in <a href="http://www.cityethics.org/content/family-and-conflicts-broward-county-f…
recent blog post</a>, the Broward County (FL; home of Ft. Lauderdale)
commissioners are seeking to have an ethics code (enforced by an
inspector general; it's being drafted) apply to county employees, as
well. For some reason, this not only must go to referendum, but must
also be approved by a majority each of state senators and

Every bad situation has a nightmare equivalent. The nightmare
equivalent of mayoral misuse of public office and public property for
personal benefit seems to have occurred in the Philippines.<br>
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Can the government ethics enforcement community learn anything from a
successful experiment in the crime enforcement field? With tongue only
partly in cheek, I will try to show ways in which the government ethics
enforcement community could learn a thing or two.<br>
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