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A Lack of Empathy
... Many people take a character approach to government ethics. That is, they see government ethics as a matter of integrity, and ethics training as a matter of improving ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment
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Another News Miscellany
... through the motions of a supposed honor system. Local ethics commissions don't generally deal with transparency issues. But according to a WPLG-TV article yesterday , the ethics committee for the Miami-Dade County Public Schools recommended that the ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A Legislative IG for Chicago?
... post, I suggested that one IG be appointed by an independent ethics board, itself to be appointed by a panel selected by ... In Chicago (and, to be fair, many other local governments), ethics is a matter of turf, just like everything else. According to ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Intimidation in the Complaint Process
... of interest, some of the findings are relevant to government ethics. Most important was the element of intimidation involved in ... that especially caught my attention. We're not talking City Ethics here. We're talking the International Association of Chiefs of Police, ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Conflicts of Interest: Taking a Holistic View
... word that comes to mind when one thinks about municipal ethics (but it would be interesting to know what word does first come to mind). ... only from matters that involve funding of her salary? An ethics training course could hold a nice little discussion about this ...
Robert Wechsler - 2007-02-16 12:40 - 0 comments
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Favoring Friends - The Massachusetts Approach
... are so difficult to define, they don’t appear in ethics codes. Relatives can be defined, domestic partners can be defined, ... old buddies. This is one of the limitations of dealing with ethics in the form of a law. But the Massachusetts Ethics Commission, which ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Value of Jurisdiction Over Contractors in Projects Paid For with Local Government Funds
Body: An important issue in local government ethics is how far jurisdiction should go. Recently, I did a blog entry on ... jurisdictional question: should a local government have ethics jurisdiction over those contracted to do work supported by city funds, ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Local Government Legal Defense Funds
... Jim Hahn used a legal defense fund to pay off a $53,522 city ethics fine for improper fund-raising in the 2001 campaign "with contributions ... from the fund's website (the mayor hogged the URL www.mayordefensefund.org ) it appears that she participated. And here's ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Horse and Carriage, or Love and Marriage?
... necessary or are they outdated in this age of government ethics? Interested people making important decisions that affect their ... Media Group article this week , in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the ethics board is considering what to do about a situation where a ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Beyond the Criminal Enforcement Paradigm: Dealing with Unwritten Rules
Body: I have written about the need for ethics commissions to go beyond the criminal enforcement paradigm, which limits ... determining whether an individual respondent has violated an ethics provision or not. It is hard to find instances of a commission looking ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
