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Is "Ethics" the Best Word for Conflicts of Interest?
Body: “Ethics” is an unfortunate name for what appears in government ethics codes. When people think about ethics, they think about right and wrong, about moral obligations, about being ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Independence of New Orleans' Ethics Program
Body: The New Orleans Ethics Review Board, formed in 2006, certainly wins an A for independence. According to the city ethics code , six of its seven members are chosen by the mayor (with council ... Inspector General ordinance , the IG is selected by the ethics review board. Within the IG's office is an independent police monitor. ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A Proposed Ethics Code for Memphis Falls Short
... In between, the city and the county (Shelby County) passed ethics codes, but not only did they give the ethics commissions little in the way of teeth, but no sign of the commissions ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Prince George's County (MD) Ethics Reforms Good, But Incomplete
... introduced to the Maryland House that would make extensive ethics changes. The bills would deal with the moribund ethics program by providing the county ethics board with an executive director, ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Officials' Personal Opinions and the Separation of Aspirational and Enforceable Ethics Provisions
Body: Many local government ethics codes have a provision that, when officials publicly give personal ... representing the local government. Here's the one from the ethics code in Santa Clarita (CA) where, according to an article yesterday ... any policy." One big problem is that the Santa Clarita ethics code, passed in 2008, has no formal enforcement mechanism. Here's the ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Jersey City Ethics Audit re Development Process
... FBI sting operation (see my blog post ). Yesterday, an ethics audit focused on development practices was released. Requested by the ... officials and developers. (an essential rule) Special ethics code relating to development process, including relevant examples, and ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Ethics Awards
Body: Global Ethics , an organization run by Rushworth Kidder, author of Moral Courage and other books, has a good Ethics Newsline, which you can subscribe to. His lead article this week is about government ethics awards, inspired by what happened in Hillsborough County, which includes ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Another Reason Not to Let an Ethics Program Become Moribund
... an all too common scenario: A local government creates an ethics program after a scandal, and time passes either without another scandal ... a change of administration. The new administration sees the ethics program as unnecessary, and decides not to fund the program and not to ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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New Cuyahoga County Ethics Code
... , Cuyahoga County (which includes Cleveland) passed a new ethics code, largely based on the recommended code drafted in October by the Code of Ethics Workgroup, set up by the Cuyahoga County Transition Advisory Group ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Confidential Information Provisions, Ethics, and Transparency
... , a county supervisor is seeking to add to the county ethics code a confidential information provision that would not limit the prohibition to what is common in ethics codes: information divulged for someone's benefit. As I've written ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
