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1. Legislative Immunity, Local Government Attorneys, and Bell, California

   ... is that state EC decisions are usually not about the content of a vote, such as the amount of an official's salary, but rather about ...

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

2. Fall Reading: Out of Character

   ... of us the potential to lie, cheat, steal, and sin, no matter how good a person we believe ourselves to be." They see character as a ... ant to the grasshopper, but it is the ant that worries about how speaking up about ethical misconduct might affect our career, our family, ...

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

3. Chicago Task Force Second Report III — Ethics Program Independence

   ... to prevent an ethics program from working effectively. How can this be done? I discuss the ways in detail in my book Local ... not a bad approach, but it is not the best approach. Here's how the LIG Ordinance describes its blue ribbon panel: The Blue Ribbon Panel ...

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

4. The Many Ways in Which Lawyers Can Do Nothing About an Unethical Environment

   ... and it is painful, but important reading. Here's how some of the lawyers with obligations relating to what occurred acted and ... date back 150 years when big coal mining money began to buy favors from public officials. This corruption spread like a cancer ...

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

5. Indirect Benefits, Expertise, and the Responsibility for Poor Ethics Advice

   ... of time volunteers have able to spend, without having deep content expertise and knowledge – is a bad model." A better model, and a ... to give up the expertise of people like this. The issue is how best to employ this expertise, while not creating perceptions of ...

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

6. Using Local Government Employees for Private Purposes

   ... after the contract was awarded. Here's a link to a page on how to detect change order abuse . The superintendent's contract ...

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

7. A New Local Ethics Program's First Matter Raises Some Important Issues

   ... were who passed it (the current common council) or how it is that there is no place for questioning the people on the ethics board ... to explain their reasoning, show their work. All seem to be content to point out the problems and offer nothing to solve them. ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 4 comments

8. What Is Free Speech?

   ... the airwaves with mean-spirited ads that contain little content of value to voters? Is there anything more dystopic than many of our ...

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

9. An Appreciative Look at the Draft Broward County Ethics Code for County Commissioners

   ... of the meeting from the Sun-Sentinel site). So how bad is the code, which applies only to county commissioners? Actually, not ... finance ordinances have to be as strict or stricter, in content or penalty, as state laws ( there is such a provision, however, for ...

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

10. Louisiana Legislators Sue Ethics Board - Including Dialogue with One of the Legislators

    ... their self-interest ahead of the public interest? Just think how it would be if the representative had been conscientious and felt it was in ... does not apply to Rep. Arnold's situation. It is not the content of the legislator's speech that ethics laws are concerned with (and ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2007-03-29 08:24 - 5 comments

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