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1. How to Unsettle a Settlement Agreement

   Body:  What happens if an ethics commission enters into a settlement agreement in which an official admits to certain conduct in violation of the jurisdiction's ethics code, and then the official goes out into the world and says he did ... yesterday's Philadelphia Inquirer , Philadelphia's ethics board gets at least some officials to agree "not to make any public ...

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

2. The Defense of the Nevada Legislative Immunity Amendment Falls Short

   ... Nevada legislators' legislative immunity in an ethics context. Supreme Court precedents are indeed valuable. However, (i) ... Court has not yet interpreted legislative immunity in an ethics context, and (ii) it has made it clear that there are important ... what he called the core legislative functions. The state ethics commission not only lacks jurisdiction over a state legislator's voting ...

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

3. Why Nepotism Is Relatively Unethical

   Body:  Nepotism is often left out of ethics codes because it does not seem all that unethical. Another reason for ... and for waivers, even if waivers are not available for other ethics code violations. But the nepotism rule in Missouri, which applies ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 2 comments

4. A Miscellany

   Body:  Ethics Reform as Part of a Financial Assistance Deal Earlier this week I ... pension plans, might have created an opening for ethics reform over the dead bodies of local officials who have only scorn for it. Willfulness and Government Ethics The result of a Palm Beach County (FL) ethics proceeding was both ...

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

5. Post-EC Obligations

   Body:  Does a former ethics commission member have a special obligation not to make misstatements with respect to government ethics matters? This question arose from a 2010 case in Florida I just came ... the state senate president hired a former chair of the state ethics commission as his attorney. According to an Associated Press article ...

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

6. Miami-Dade County's Cone of Silence, Prohibiting Oral Ex Parte Communications re Contracts

   ... of the county commission. Here's how the Miami-Dade County Ethics Commission describes the cone of silence provision: The Cone ... it anyways. The irony is not lost on government ethics professionals, who know that no ethics provision is foolproof, but ...

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

7. A Miscellany

   ... to an article this week on the TribLive website , an ethics complaint was filed against an Allegheny County, PA council member for ... partially overlaps the council member's. The county ethics code prohibits council members from being employed on the personal ...

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

8. Problems with Reasonable Perception Language and Enforcement of General Policies

   ... a federal police grant. Due to poor language in the ethics code, and some poor interpretation, what is a fairly straightforward ... the General Policy provision, the first one in the Tulsa ethics code . The provision contains a mix of general policy and what appear ...

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

9. An Official's Possibly Conflicting Interests Are Public Information

   ... The city of 540,000 does not appear to have an ethics officer or commission, so this was the most reasonable alternative. ... in a matter where he has an interest, the public (usually an ethics commission, the news media, or a gadfly) can stop him from doing ...

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

10. The Gifts Dilemma

    ... political parties, which ends up politicizing the ethics process. Instead of ridding politics of gifts, gifts end up ... and this undermines the public's trust. The City Ethics Model Code gifts provision prohibits gifts from anyone doing business ... and that, wherever possible, it is best to keep government ethics from being politicized. Robert Wechsler Director of ...

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

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