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1. EC Jurisdiction Over Those Who Govern

   ... question that is not asked often enough in local government ethics. It is not enough for an ethics program to have jurisdiction over officials and employees. It needs to ...

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

2. He Zones, She Sells, and It's Legal (in Chicago)

   ... (I should try my hand at such a provision in the City Ethics Model Code ). As it turns out, Chicago's ethics laws do not consider an official to have an economic interest when it is ...

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

3. A Proposed Procurement Review Task Force in Miami-Dade

   ... those of government. The values of government ethics and transparency, and other values such as diversity, do not clearly ... trust in those who manage the community. Government ethics rules also can save taxpayers a lot of money by preventing such things ...

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

4. Local Government Regulation of Political Robocalls

   ... , here is the first of two examples of local government ethics matters involving anonymity outside of an internet context. An ... in Thursday's Bangor Daily News discusses a state ethics commission investigation into anonymous robocalls the day before a ...

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

5. Conflicts of Interest Go Beyond Financial Benefits to Officials

   Body:  Many local government ethics codes define a conflict of interest as existing only when an official ... gets lots of money from the city. A council member filed an ethics complaint, and the city's ethics board dismissed the complaint because the officials themselves received ...

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

6. EC Selection: Nonpartisanship and Independence

   ... you go to great lengths to ensure a nonpartisan, independent ethics body, there will be politicians who accuse it of being partisan when it ... and independence with respect to the selection of ethics body members. It is important to understand the distinctions among them. ...

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

7. Shorstein: lobbyist rules should be enforced

   ... by David Chapman Staff Writer From: http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=49846 As of Tuesday, discussions between the City Ethics Commission and Office of General Counsel were ongoing about how to ... regulations is attorney Paul Harden, whose written reply to Ethics Officer Carla Miller’s letter was the main topic of a special Ethics ...

   donmc - 2008-04-16 18:44 - 0 comments

8. A City Pension Board Attorney's Fiefdom

   ... I talk a lot about the importance of independent ethics commissions. But independence is not always a good thing for local ... without oversight, transparency, and independent ethics enforcement easily turns into someone's fiefdom. According to ... with the boards. And he makes no effort to give the boards ethics or transparency rules that might restrict them. However, in October, ...

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

9. The Need for a Taxonomy of Institutional Corruption in Local Government

   ... that lawyers, especially government lawyers, do not see ethics laws as ordinary laws with loopholes they use their cleverness to find ... and corporate clients. Instead, lawyers should consider ethics rules to be minimum requirements, whose loopholes should be ignored, ...

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

10. Book Review: Jane Jacobs' Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics

    Body:  Not one of the recent books in my ethics library cites Jane Jacobs’ 1993 work, Systems of Survival: A ... I found on-line do not include any about government ethics. This is a big loss for the government ethics community, because Jacobs, ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2008-01-10 13:10 - 0 comments

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