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Ethics Commission Meetings -- Passivity Doesn't Cut It
Body: How often should ethics commissions meet? The usual answer to that question is, As often as ... meet when they receive one or the other. But what about ethics training? Even if they are not required to train or oversee training of ... and the public know they exist and what they and the ethics code are all about? Promotion is the life blood of any endeavor. ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Welcome to the City Ethics website!
... project designed to exchange best practices in government ethics programs. Please participate and send us your ideas for expansion of the ... the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws . (See: www.cogel.org ) It was felt that there was a real need to provide ...
donmc - 2012-05-08 13:04 - 0 comments
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Bullying an Ethics Board Pays Off in Sioux Falls
... local government officials can sometimes be with respect to ethics commissions. A year ago, I wrote about a former Sioux Falls (SD) ... Staggers, who attacked complaints filed by the city's ethics board as "frivolous" and attacked its procedures when it gave him ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Questioning the Assumption of An Official's Sole Responsibility for Ethics Violations
Body: It is assumed in government ethics enforcement that an official who mishandles a conflict situation is ... in fact, she might not have had access to professional ethics advice from anyone, or only from a city attorney who was an important ... could be discussed and, if it was a gray area, put before an ethics officer. In other words, the assumption is that no matter how poor ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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An Interest Discovery (sic)
... as it is commonly used by lawyers in the government ethics context. It was for this reason that I rarely use the word "interest" in my book Local Government Ethics Programs . According to an article in Monday's Baltimore ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Parties and the Selection of Ethics Board Members
... Body: One nearly untouchable aspect of government ethics is the role of parties. This is less a problem in municipalities ... of parties in our system, and there is little that ethics laws can do about this sort of conflict of interest. The reasoning ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Bellevue Council Can't Get a Grip on an Ethics Investigation
... suburb of Seattle, with a population of 120,000, has an ethics code for employees, but with no independent enforcement. Its ethics code for elected officials is just the state's limited provisions, again ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Knowledge, Fear of Retaliation, and Ethics Commission Selection Issues in D.C.
... involves the mayor's recent selection of members for the new ethics board. Transparency and the Fear of Retaliation Transparency ... incumbent) or, where the local government has a very poor ethics environment, from losing business altogether, especially when the ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Cronyism and Ethics
... Body: This month, in Portland, CT, home of the stone used to build New York City's brownstones, the new ethics commission found that it was a violation of the town's ethics code for ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Survey: Ethics in Local Government
... to get a more accurate feel for the overall view of Ethics in Local Governments in the USA. We are very interested in ...
donmc - 2005-06-09 08:54 - 0 comments
