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Ethics News from San Diego
Body: There's a lot of ethics news from San Diego today. First, the judge in the San Diego campaign ... Development Corp. is going to a hearing before the San Diego ethics commission next week. The allegations of the EC's general counsel ... you don't see every day: a discussion of government ethics among local newspaper editors. The discussion was sparked by a San ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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An Ethics Challenge and a Unusual Approach to Pay-to-Play
... according to an article in the New York Times . The ethics code provisions made it "illegal for public officials to accept campaign ... far easier to prove receipt. The Greenburgh Board of Ethics website has a page that sets out in clear language for potential ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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State-Mandated Ethics Reform and Political Culture
... In many states without state enforcement of local government ethics, the compromise position pushed particularly by local government officials is to have the state mandate local ethics codes, but let local governments decide what's right for them. The motto ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Independent Offices vs. Independent Ethics Enforcement in Palm Beach County
... Two weeks ago, I welcomed the new Palm Beach County ethics codes. What I didn't realize is how much of the county's government ... submit to oversight by the inspector general and the ethics commission, then the IG and EC won't have any jurisdiction over them. ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Government Ethics and Charlie Wilson's War
... Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Julia Roberts, for the City Ethics Top Ten Ethics Films list . Charlie Wilson is a multi-term congressman whose ...
Robert Wechsler - 2008-01-01 11:41 - 1 comment
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EC vs. IG: A Battle It's Better Not to Have
... failure to work out in advance the relationship between an ethics commission and an inspector general's office has led to the locking of horns in the midst of an ethics proceeding. This time the location of the turf war is the District of ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Tough Way to Revive a Moribund Ethics Commission
Body: What do you do when an ethics commission is moribund? Sadly, few people know and few people care. That ... official complain publicly, "I have no one to give me good ethics advice." She just goes to the city or county attorney, or makes the ... Rarely does anyone complain that there is no ethics training or nowhere to file an ethics complaint. And certainly no ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Rationalization and Initiative in the Ethics Sphere
... chief executive of the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics .... "I've watched this for 13 years. There are always people ... gain through the use of their positions, such as members of ethics commissions, ethics officers, and ethics and compliance staff. This ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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FL League of Cities' Ethics Proposals IV - Local Govt. Assocs. Should Not Lobby re Conflicts of Interest
... Bill 606 (attached; see below), one of the worst ethics reform bills I have ever read. The Florida League of Cities was deeply involved in drafting these supposed ethics reforms, which I criticize in my last three blog posts. The question ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Winter Reading: The Ethics of Lobbying
... on, I just finished reading a 2002 book entitled The Ethics of Lobbying from the Woodstock Theological Center at ... lobbyists interviewed, organized by topic; a look at what ethics is; the state of lobbying and its ethical concerns; regulation of lobbying at the federal level; the ethics of political advocacy in terms of the integrity of the ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
