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  1. Giving Voice to Values I

    ... . And I've talked about the importance of open discussion of ethics issues in government as a solution to this silence problem. But that is, ... each individual can end his or her silence with respect to ethics issues:  Mary C. Gentile's Giving Voice to Values: How to Speak Your ...

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

  2. An Honor System That Didn't Work

    ... designed website, but there appears to be nothing about ethics or compliance, and no search line to find it. Also, the ethics officer is still in office, despite her own ethical problems ...

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

  3. National League of Cities - RISC May 2007 Conference

    ... to be a part of promotional training ? --- Ethics begins with management Those employing a management team should make ... Review personnel handbook to idenbtify references to ethics During regular department head metting review beliefs of ethics ...

    donmc - 2007-05-05 19:20 - 0 comments

  4. Disclosure of the Names of Those Whose Benefit Creates a Conflict of Interest

    ... they have to do is resign en masse and whoever wrote the ethics code will not only rewrite it, but will say all sorts of warm, wonderful ... that comes from yesterday's passage of changes to Oregon's ethics code , which applies to local government officials. Several changes ...

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

  5. A City Land Sale That Requires a Broader Investigation

    ... Body:  Here's an interesting case study from Hartford, CT. The facts come from an NBC Connecticut Troubleshooters post from Friday ... that made his participation in the matter problematic, as an ethics complaint asserts? According to the auditor, the council member did no ...

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

  6. The Problems with EC Jurisdiction Over Charter Violations

    ... charter. But such a violation is usually not a government ethics violation, because it has nothing to do with conflicts of interest. It ... family, or one's business associates. And yet some ethics codes contain a provision making a legal or charter violation an ethics ...

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

  7. A Miscellany

    ... Island Supreme Court to hear the appeal by the Rhode Island Ethics Commission of the decision upholding the old constitutional ... against a more recent constitutional amendment creating the ethics commission and giving it jurisdiction over the state legislature. The ...

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

  8. The Broward County Commission Should Not Be Challenging the Constitutionality of a Lobbying Provision

    ... county commission that lobbying provisions in the county ethics commission's proposed ethics code are unconstitutional and, therefore, should either be removed by ...

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

  9. Institutional Corruption Conference I: Duplicitous Exclusion

    ... Institutional Corruption sponsored by the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University ( videos of it will eventually appear here ). ... ideas that were discussed are applicable to local government ethics. I will start with the ideas of Mark Warren, a professor at ...

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

  10. A Conflict Built into Municipal Campaign Finance Enforcement in Connecticut

    Body:  Sometimes, conflicts are built right into ethics laws, partly because it is in the political interest of those with ... and partly because they don't even view those laws as ethics laws. A good example of this is the Connecticut law ( CGS §9-623 ...

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

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