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1. A County Ethics Program Run by a Non-Independent Ombudsman

   Body:  Although in 2008, Orange County, Florida's Ethics and Campaign Finance Reform Task Force recommended (report attached; see below) that the county have an ethics board selected by a variety of community organizations, following the ...

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

2. Local Government Attorneys - More or Fewer Ethics Rules?

   ... to exclude not only county legislature members from its new ethics code, but also county attorneys. This exception is hidden square in ... for county residents, or that the rules and the ethics code would either contradict each other or could create problems ...

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

3. Press: Jacksonville Times Union

   Ethics office budget stirs city turmoil Confusion over an increase has ... Mayor John Peyton's proposed budget, it looked like the city ethics office stood to receive a 70 percent boost. Photo: BRUCE LIPSKY/The Times-Union Looks can be deceiving, said Ethics Officer Carla Miller, who explained that the increase amounted to about ...

   donmc - 2015-05-15 14:15

4. Regulating Ethics in a Bust

   ... in a financial system. They are also common in government ethics. Booms are when things are good, when local politicians seem worthy ... of what he says applies to improving a local government's ethics program after a scandal, which is similarly the norm. Here's how ...

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

5. Littering and Government Ethics

   ... of the conduct. The application to government ethics is clear. In a poor ethics environment (that is, where the descriptive norm does not follow the ...

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

6. Do Ethics Commissions Have Jurisdiction Over Officials' Practice of Law?

   ... people. The latest use of their creativity is to argue that ethics boards cannot require disclosure of a conflict of interest that arises ... is state senator Rob Marionneaux of Louisiana, a state whose ethics code applies to local governments. According to an article in the ...

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

7. Local Government Attorney Ethics Advice

   ... but rather a judgment based partially on the language of an ethics code and partially on a determination of what is appropriate under the ... to take full responsibility for their government ethics decisions. According to an article in the Desert Sun , a La ...

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

8. A New Local Government Ethics Term

   ... Louis Post-Dispatch for inventing a new local government ethics term in an editorial yesterday . The term is "dyscronia." ... situations and to deal with them responsibly, despite normal ethics." Dyscronia is not just about arrogance, as the editorial suggests. ...

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

9. The Consequences of Academic Noninvolvement in the Reform of Government Conflicts of Interest Programs

   ... Administration Anniversary Symposium: Visions and Voices of Ethics in the Profession" (Fall 2014, Vol. 16, No. 4). Since the journal ... “Virtually alone among laws enacted by government, an ethics law regulates the very persons who enact it. Not surprisingly, therefore, the road to ethics reform more often than not proves long, rocky, and arduous, fraught with ...

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

10. A Government Ethics Approach to Open Records

    Body:  Luis Toro, the director of Colorado Ethics Watch, raised an important local government ethics issue in a recent Huffington Post post . It is a problem that is ...

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

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