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1. Dallas Ethics Reform Proposals to Go to Vote November 9

   ... is effectively forcing the hand of the city council to enact ethics reforms to provide more transparency and oversight with respect to ... next meeting, on November 9. Here's what the ethics reform proposals look like: Lobbyist Disclosure - ...

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

2. Assessors and Government Ethics

   ... This is one of those situations where government ethics is so important, where its emphasis on relationships and appearances, ... there was a gift or preferential treatment, would lead an ethics adviser to tell the assessor that she should not even purchase a ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2012-09-27 09:54 - 0 comments

3. The Supreme Court Is to Consider How Honest Services Fraud Jives with Ethics Laws

   ... issue: should the federal government be determining what ethics rules are appropriate for state and local officials? And three, it ... is little, highly partisan, or self-serving local and state ethics enforcement. When officials choose not to provide basic ethics laws or ...

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

4. Clearing the Air?: The Independence of Ethics Commissions

   Body:  When an ethics commission is appointed by the city's principal officials, can it ... respect to allegations against them? Baltimore's Board of Ethics has five members, four of them appointed by the mayor, three of those ... a series of Sun articles early in 2006 led to a Board of Ethics inquiry into whether then City Council President Dixon used her ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2007-03-06 10:25 - 0 comments

5. An Attempt to Get Rid of New Ethics Provisions in Three Broward County Cities

   ... In November 2010, Broward County, FL voters approved an ethics code for officials of the cities in the county (the code also applies ... law. Two, the ballot language makes no mention of the county ethics code, making it very unclear to voters what exactly they are voting on. ...

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

6. Ethics Program Ideas from a Small Town in Vermont

   Body:  Ethics problems and the need for ethics programs are the stuff of cities and, perhaps, larger towns, or so most ... not much to learn from small towns, in terms of municipal ethics. Right? Middletown Springs, Vermont is a town of 823 (2000 census), ...

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

7. Broward County Ethics Reform Passes, But Budget Concerns Remain

   ... Broward County (FL) voters embraced (3-1) two ethics questions on the ballot yesterday, which applied the new county code of ethics to all municipalities in the county as well as to all constitutional ...

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

8. Above the Law Is Well Below Ethics

   ... How a big-city police chief responds to his commission of an ethics violation is more important than the violation itself. The worst thing he can do is act as if he is above the law, as if ethics laws, not to mention ethics considerations, do not apply to him. ...

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

9. A Civil Grand Jury Report on the San Francisco Ethics Commission

   ... after each relevant section below. The San Francisco Ethics Commission has been criticized a lot recently. As I wrote in ... and in 2010, people marched on the EC after the death of an ethics activist who had served successively as a staff member and a commission ...

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

10. The Problem with Legislative Ethics Waivers

    Body:  Many government ethics professionals don't like waivers. I think they're valuable. Basically, ... official recognizes that certain conduct would constitute an ethics violation, but wants a determination that he can engage in the conduct ... only after a public hearing. The value of a government ethics waiver is completely different when it is not an independent ethics ...

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

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