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1. Centralized vs. Disbursed Ethics Programs

   Body:  Is discomfort with a centralized ethics program by various parts of a local government something that should ... in a discussion by the board of selectmen of Madison, CT , a town about a half hour's drive from where I live. The town is run ...

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

2. Ethics Reform in Niles (IL): Don't Try This at Home

   ... I wrote about the self-serving nature of attempts at ethics reform in the village of Niles, outside Chicago. A lot has happened since then, but in terms of an ethics program, not much. According to an article in the Niles Patch ...

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

3. Summer Reading: Richard Painter on Ethics Reform III

   ... on how Richard W. Painter's recommendations for federal ethics reform in his book, Getting the Government America Deserves: How Ethics Reform Can Make a Difference (Oxford U.P., 2009), may be applied to ...

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

4. Fort Wayne Deserves a Far Better Ethics Program

   ... If you're a city of a quarter million people with an ethics board that “has not met in many years and ... is effectively ... to a council member who has proposed a new ethics ordinance, what do you do? Not, I think, what ... (p. 16ff) does, which is create a new ethics board solely for council members, and consisting of two council members, ...

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

5. Leadership and Obstacles to Ethics Reform

   ... the American Society for Public Administration, author of Ethics Management for Public Administrators: Building Organizations of Integrity , and co-editor of Teaching Ethics and Values: Innovations, Strategies, and Issues in Public Administration ...

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

6. Albert Hirschman's Exit, Voice, and Loyalty

   ... Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (1970), to local government ethics ( back in 2009 , I pulled out a few thought-provoking passages from ... room for longer and more frequent public hearings and public comment periods, and make those hearings and periods available to the public on ...

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

7. A County Ethics Commission Resigns En Masse

   Body:  When the entire ethics commission of a major county resigns, something is seriously wrong. This ... exempted itself (and other elected officials) from a new ethics code just before passing it. According to an article in Thursday's ... the exemption argued that it would be best if the Missouri Ethics Commission dealt with them (the Missouri EC already did ...

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

8. City Attorney Investigates Memphis Mayor for Possible Ethics Violation

   ... One result of the many convictions in Memphis was a new ethics ordinance in 2007 (not directly accessible via the city website search ... According to a professor from Rhodes College, the ethics ordinance is weaker than the charter provisions on conflicts of ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment

9. The Duties of Ethics Board Members: The Bad Example of Detroit

   Body:  Do ethics board members have a duty to follow more than the letter of their ethics code? This issue has arisen with respect to the Detroit Board of Ethics. The Board’s chair, attorney Reginald Turner, joined the membership ...

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

10. New Prince George's County (MD) Ethics Reform Proposal

    ... One of the wonderful things about local government ethics is that every mayor or county executive feels qualified to act as if he was establishing the first local government ethics program ever. It's sort of like choosing what will go in a bento box, ...

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

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