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The Educational Opportunities of a Local Ethics Case in Massachusetts
Body: A settlement in a Massachusetts ethics proceeding can be used as an educational opportunity in several ways. ... to a February 28 press release from the Massachusetts Ethics Commission , which has jurisdiction over local officials, a member of ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Municipal Ethics Task Force in CT Bows to Town Officials
... Recently, the Connecticut Task Force on Municipal Ethics discussed a draft report . Neither in the report, nor in the discussion , is there anything about ethics training, the independence of ethics commissions, or financial disclosure. Advisory opinions were not ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Current Ethics Reform II - Phoenix
... Body: In June, the Phoenix council took a step toward ethics reform, based on the recommendations of a task force (I critiqued the ... in an April post entitled " Disappointing Report from Ethics Task Force in Phoenix "). What the council did was approve ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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ERC's 2008 National Government Ethics Study Released
The President of City Ethics, Carla Miller, recently participated in the 2007 NGES Advisory Group in the review of the Ethics Resource Center 's first National Government Ethics Study which was ... a copy by registering at the ERC's website: http://www.ethics.org/ From the Executive Summary: Public Trust is at Risk ...
donmc - 2015-05-15 14:11
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Ethics Reform: League of Women Voters Versus Town of Greenwich
... by the myriad ways in which local governments approach ethics reform. An article in the Greenwich Time last week sheds some light on the state of ethics reform in Greenwich, CT. (Disclosure: my brother lives in Greenwich, but is not politically ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Standards of Proof in Ethics Enforcement
... violation occurred has become an issue in Louisiana's ethics reform. After looking at several local government ethics codes, as well ... as to what probable cause is. I referred to the CT cases interpreting the PJR statutes. I figured that the burden of proof for ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 2 comments
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Winter Reading: Lawyers As (Ethics) Leaders
... why city and county attorneys should not be providing ethics advice. One of those reasons was that "legal advice and ethics advice require different skill sets." But I limited this part of my ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Ethics Program Jurisdiction Over Boards of Education
Body: One government ethics question that does not have a general answer is whether boards of ... school systems are under the jurisdiction of city or county ethics programs. The answer is sometimes, but generally not. There are ... the state requires that school systems have their own ethics laws and commissions. New Jersey, on the other hand, has a state ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Was There In Fact an Ethics Emergency in Corpus Christi?
... In May I wrote a blog post about a so-called ethics emergency in Corpus Christi, declared by a lame-duck council at its last ... This so-called emergency was the excuse for pushing through ethics reforms without running them by the city's ethics commission or allowing ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Problems with Ethics Provisions That Go Beyond Conflicts of Interest Issues
... Update (9/30/09) I tend to focus a lot on weaknesses of ethics codes, but sometimes ethics codes go too far. One reason for this is that they are usually responses ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment