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1. Total Gift Bans and Legal Defense Funds

   ... draft advisory opinion from the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission (attached; see below) raises two different issues. One is ... in restricting gifts to officials as part of a government ethics program. Gifts are restricted because they create and deepen (and appear ...

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

2. Books of Interest

   Most books of relevance to local government ethics deal with administrative ethics, that is, the ethical behavior of government administrators, rather than ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2015-04-20 11:59

3. Gifts from Restricted Sources

   ... It's too bad that at least some members of the Los Angeles ethics commission don't recognize this. It is a problem that restricted ... — it is surprising how rarely this solution appears in ethics codes, and how hard it is to get such prohibitions passed. The ...

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

4. ERC Releases Report:

   Body:  The Ethics Resource Center in Washington DC has released an interesting document ... Ethics Resource Center (See: http://www.ethics.org/CECO/ )]"This paper responds to a problem expressed by many ... You can download the full document here: http://www.ethics.org/CECO/ (Or click on the document image to the right...) 1 ...

   donmc - 2015-05-15 14:06 - 0 comments

5. Winter Reading: Switch I - Situational Forces

   ... and county in the United States. Those seeking government ethics reform can learn a lot from this book. There are two different types of change involved in government ethics. One involves ethics reform, a local government's change toward ...

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

6. The Ethical Responsibility of a Local Party Committee

   ... too many elections. The chair's concern is not about ethics, of course, but about the competence and sanity of selected candidates. ... support candidates he feels are unfit for office. The Ethics Power of Local Party Committees Let's take this down to the local ...

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

7. Mayoral and Council Interference with EC Member and Staff Selection

   Body:  The independence of ethics commissions and their staff is the single most important aspect of a government ethics program. Who selects the commission members and their staff, and how, colors everything about an ethics program and determines, more than any other factor, whether the public ...

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

8. Chicago Compliance and Integrity Survey

   ... that its Office of Compliance commissioned from the Ethics Resource Center , a primarily corporate ethics and compliance research organization. Here are some of the ...

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

9. Ginny Looney

   ... One of the most important figures in local government ethics passed away last week at the young age of 61, after a relapse of ovarian cancer. Virginia "Ginny" Looney was Atlanta's first Ethics Officer. She was appointed by Mayor Shirley Franklin, who conceived ...

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

10. How ECs Can Preserve Their Full Allotment of Members

    ... allow this to happen. But it is not that unusual for an ethics commission, through term endings and resignations, to drop below the ... Even one or two open seats can make it very hard for an ethics commission to get a quorum. An ethics commission without a quorum can do ...

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

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