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1. Elected Officials and Ethics Commissions -- What Tension Between Them Can Lead To

   ... Union-Tribune , is a lesson for local government ethics commission members, especially commission chairs, and even more ... council member defended a review as follows:  "because the Ethics Commission has not investigated city actions regarding employee pensions ...

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

2. Supreme Court Decision on Honest Services Fraud Should Be Government Ethics Call to Arms

   ... a call to arms for the good government and local government ethics communities. The war should consist of a demand for full-scale ethics and campaign finance laws, disclosure, training, advice, investigatory ...

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

3. Ethics Guidance For and Jurisdiction Over Independent Agencies

   ... too often listen to agencies' calls for independence from ethics programs, as if the "independence" meant something positive that should ... something positive when it is a watchdog agency, like an ethics commission, auditor, or inspector general. Massachusetts agencies ...

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

4. Nonviolence and Government Ethics II – Teamwork and Leading By Example

   ... that are being used or that can be used in local government ethics. What Is Nonviolence? But first I should define ... trying to preserve public services. And recognize that poor ethics environments would not exist except for citizens' indifference and ...

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

5. NY Senator Bruno's Indictment Shows Us Once Again That Ethics Self-Enforcement Doesn't Work

   ... His biggest crime was standing in the way of any meaningful ethics reform in New York State. Here's what Susan Lerner , executive ... Common Cause in 2006-2007, and have done volunteer municipal ethics and charter reform-related work for it for several years) : This ...

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

6. Ethics Commission Allegations Against a Candidate Soon Before an Election, and a Resulting Suit

   ... It's a few weeks before a primary election, and you (a local ethics commission member or staff member) learn that a candidate has violated an ethics code provision, and hidden it via a false disclosure. Do you act or do ...

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

7. Designated Ethics Aides

   ... I'm a National Leaguer). How about a designated ethics aide? A staff member assigned by a local legislator, or department or ... about a superior's conflict situation or to check with the ethics officer on the sly and then report the advice to one's superior. An aide ...

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

8. Guarding Ethics Guardians

   ... the guardians? This is a question many people ask about ethics commissions. But the question I would like to raise is, Is this the ... [W]e also have to be careful that the some future Ethics Commission doesn’t try to take its power too far and infringe on the ...

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

9. An Interesting Agency Independence from Ethics Enforcement Issue in Broward County

   Body:  I've written about the issue of ethics commission jurisdiction over independent agencies and authorities, ... to be outside the IG's jurisdiction (and, equally, the ethics commission's), any agency would be. And yet all attorneys involved or ...

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

10. Ethics Transparency

    ... is one of the most important elements of government ethics. And yet government ethics itself is often kept secret. Respect for the privacy of those ...

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

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