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1. The Public's Right to a Public-Interested Representative

   ... County (NV) district court, Carrigan v. Commission on Ethics of the State of Nevada (attached; see below), a city council member ... not due process, but the court does call the state ethics commission's unanimous opinion "based on an improper purpose" and ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

2. A Miscellany

   Body:  Legal Disciplinary Proceeding as Ethics Enforcement Forum Occasionally, government ethics enforcement spills ... nothing like the supposed $100,000 plus by a Stamford, CT official , the $390,000 raised by Sarah Palin's legal defense fund , or ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

3. Truth Is Too Slippery, and Too Precious, A Thing to Enforce

   Body:  The biggest thing missing from ethics codes is lying. Everyone agrees that a government official or employee who lies lacks integrity, but ethics codes almost never prohibit this. It isn't that lying is okay, it's ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

4. Creating and Denying Conflicts of Interest in Harlingen, Texas

   Body:  In researching a recent ethics complaint in Harlingen, Texas (pop. 67,000), I came across some disturbing ethics matters. The most disturbing can be seen from the minutes of the city ... unanimously. It appears that the city does not provide ethics training to its board members, but this is ridiculous. In any event, ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

5. Officials Soliciting Charitable Contributions from People Doing Business with Local Government

   ... doing business before them is unethical conduct too many ethics codes allow, often expressly. Miami-Dade County has in its ethics code what appears at first to be a very reasonable exception to the ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

6. Citizens and the Advisory Opinion Process

   ... the advisory opinion provision and comments in the City Ethics Model Code Project. On the one hand, advisory opinions are ... with the requestor's conduct, which I think is why most ethics codes limit requests to city officials and employees, although, ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

7. The Importance of Being Readable

   ... Handbook: How to Create Clear SEC Disclosure Documents ( www.sec.gov/pdf/handbook.pdf ). With a preface by Warren Buffett and an introduction ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

8. Fishing for Conflicts

   ... idea people have of the word "interest." The Crossville ethics code defines "personal interest" as "Any financial, ownership, or ... commissioner), many people saw it as a violation of the ethics code. According to an article in the Chattanooga Times Free Press ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

9. The Wisdom of 38 Million Senior Citizens

   ... strongly in favor of independent, effective local government ethics programs. The lobbyist is AARP. Here is a quote from p. 1-13 of ... nonpartisan commissions to create and enforce ethics and lobbying regulations. This appears to be a simple sentence, but ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

10. California's Contract-Oriented Conflict of Interest Provision

    ... little about this section, which stands outside the state's ethics code (known as the Political Reform Act), I did a little research into ... is applied. According to the relevant section of an ethics training course on the Attorney General's website, "If a member of a ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

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