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Taking Responsibility for Planting Rats
... ways to undermine it. Second, there is the matter of ethics laws being minimum requirements. Just because something is not expressly prohibited by an ethics law doesn't mean you can do it. In fact, it is often best to stop ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Other Side of Nepotism
... that other side is often ignored in drafting a government ethics code. The other side of the nepotism coin came up recently in an ethics proceeding in Stamford, CT. According to an article this week in the Stamford Advocate , a ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Is the Principal Cause of Ethical Misconduct Within Us?
... moment, due to very distinct causes." In government ethics situations, a lot of people's energy is wasted trying to determine how ... the others at the meeting. And yet while enforcement of ethics laws is common, procedures like the one described above are not. This is ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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An Undisciplined Nevada Supreme Court Legislative Immunity Decision
... But the Supreme Court also ignores the possibility that the ethics commission could make a finding of violation, recommend a penalty, and ... beyond what was necessary, that is, a conclusion that the ethics commission had no right to punish. What is so interesting about ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Grand Jury Lays Into Broward County (FL) School Board
... You know you're doing a pretty poor job with government ethics when a grand jury recommends that you be all but abolished. This is the ... list of the board's misconduct is a laundry list of a poor ethics environment and poor management. But worst of all, like too many poor ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Top EC Officials' Obligations Relating to Discussions of Their Personnel Matters
Body: Ethics commission leaders are falling like flies in Hawaii. I recently wrote ... exception to sunshine laws for personnel issues, do an ethics commission (including FOI and campaign finance commissions) and its top ... Another way to phrase the question is, does a high-level ethics official have an ethical obligation to refuse an executive session to ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Unpaid Advisers and the Misuse of Inside Information
... others. Thus, she falls through the cracks of just about any ethics program. And yet there is a clear conflict situation here. The ... likelihoods rather than facts. This is another limitation of ethics laws. What is considered confidential information tends to be limited to ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Covering Political Party Officers
Body: Who is covered by an ethics code can be very important. In Baltimore, for instance, as I wrote in ... recent blog entry , the city solicitor has interpreted the ethics code to require disclosure of gifts only from companies doing business ... And yet I don't know of a single local government ethics code that covers party officials. After all, where is their conflict? ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Nepotism: Definition, Exceptions, Waiver
... the official should be required to seek independent ethics advice from an ethics officer or formally request a waiver. Exceptions to a Nepotism ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Negative Conflicts of Interest
... – ahead of the public interest. And yet few if any ethics codes would prohibit participation in such a conflict situation. The ... conflict provisions. Here is "bias" language from the Denver ethics code, which includes both "bias" and "prejudice." But note that this ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
