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Colleges, Knowledge, Gifts to Officials' Relatives, and Advice Regarding Past Conduct
... a case that embodies a number of important government ethics issues, including the conflict issues that involve local schools of ... relatives and the officials' knowledge of them, an ethics program's jurisdiction over these relatives, and whether government attorneys should provide ethics advice about past conduct. The article reports on the ways in which ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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EC Member Withdrawal in a Case Involving an Appointing Authority
... wrote this blog post, I erroneously assumed that the ethics commission member whose conflict situation I discuss was the only one ... by a short exchange in a closed session of New York State's ethics commission (JCOPE) that was accidentally webcast. According to ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Issues Arising from Auctioning Official's Purchase of Property at Foreclosure
... handled by the sheriff's office. The Application of Ethics Laws to Foreclosure Purchases The first issue involves the ... auction run by the sheriff or by another deputy. Many ethics codes prohibit officials from entering into a contract with their agency ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Legislative Immunity in Rhode Island -- A New Court Decision
... Court Judge Francis J. Darigan dismissed a state ethics commission case against the state's former senate president, William V. ... following U.S. Supreme Court precedent. Rhode Island's ethics commission and ethics code were created pursuant to a constitutional ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Winter Reading: Switch VII - Self-Evaluation and Identity
... makes it hard to orient themselves with respect to possible ethics reform. One of the reasons we can get away with evaluating ... With respect to government ethics, however, it's not clear that getting more specific makes a difference. ... a bit of training, they couldn't be a better-than-average ethics adviser. And they don't realize that even good ethics advisers need ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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San Antonio Officials Mishandle the Mishandling of a Conflict Situation
... city manager decided to do was write a letter to the city's Ethics Review Board (ERB) asking it to determine whether he violated the city's ethics code. This was the right thing to do. What is wrong is that city ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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It's Important to Make Sure That a Confidential Information Provision Cannot Be Used Against Whistleblowers
... provisions are extremely important to government ethics, but poorly worded ethics provisions can undermine even the best whistleblower provisions, especially in unscrupulous hands. One such ethics provision is the confidential information provision. A nurse at a ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Blind Spots I — Unconscious Unethical Conduct
Body: Although it is not a book about government ethics, Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It ... University Press) is a must-read book for government ethics practitioners. This new book (it came out just a couple of weeks ago) ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A Miscellany
... Waiver Not a Confidentiality Waiver? It is common for ethics codes to allow respondents in ethics proceedings to waive confidentiality and make the proceeding ... today announcing that I'll be waiving confidentiality as the Ethics Commission studies some of the allegations made in the press and ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A New Proposal for a Pennsylvania Public Integrity Commission with Jurisdiction Over Local Government Officials
... that would have greater powers than the current state ethics commission, and would jurisdiction over officials at all levels of ... be asked to waive their legislative immunity with respect to ethics investigations and enforcement. The commission would have ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
