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1. Nonprofits and the Revolving Door

   ... of revolving-door provisions, which are common in local government ethics codes. One purpose of revolving-door provisions is to prevent ...

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

2. Legislators and Pension Plans: The Class Exception vs. The Appearance of Impropriety

   Body:  Government pensions are one of the most serious issues facing local and state ... far worse pension situations. This is not an area where government officials should want to add apparent conflicts to the mix, but an ... of transparency in the pension system (very low) and the ethics rules under which their personal interests in the pension plans would ...

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

3. Conflict of Interest or Expertise?

   Body:  One thing that's good about local government is that so much of it is done by volunteers. Volunteers aren't ... focuses on the most basic and, apparently, insoluble ethics problem in New Mexico, whose governor is trying to push through ethics ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2007-01-22 11:01 - 3 comments

4. Lobbying, Influence, Bribery, and Gift-Giving in Alabama

   ... the Senate Committee on Constitution, Campaign Finance, Ethics and Elections, wrote a long piece last weekend for the Montgomery ... and gift-giving, between criminal laws and ethics laws. Government ethics is a less onerous, administrative approach to official ...

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

5. 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 ... for appointments of members to the new Board of Ethics and Government Accountability. In fact, he didn't started asking for residents to ...

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

6. A County Attorney Disbarred for Ethical Misconduct

   ... of Pace University, "This is a huge victory for good-government people and people who believe that prosecutors should be accountable ... attorneys are rarely held to account for providing poor ethics advice, or poor advice on any topic. They are rarely held to account for ...

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

7. Albuquerque Ethics Brings Down State and Federal Officials

   ... and the court administrator and his wife. Municipal ethics has its way of pulling in people at all levels of government, doesn't it. Robert Wechsler's blog Story ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2007-03-30 16:58 - 0 comments

8. A Crippling Case of Ethics Self-Enforcement

   ... often written about the problems with self-enforcement of ethics laws. In the Wisconsin case of a state supreme court justice's ... were willing to read the judicial conduct provision as the ethics law it is, that is as a minimum requirement, rather than as a criminal ...

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

9. Waivers and Exclusions

   ... for obtaining waivers. 102. Exclusions from the Code of Ethics and from Transactional Disclosure. The provisions of 100 and 101 of ... to an official or employee plus his close relations. Many ethics codes' dollar limits are per gift, usually around $50, in the belief ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2007-02-17 09:11 - 0 comments

10. High-Level Officials and Agencies Where Their Family Members Work

    ... panel, because he has four family members who work in city government:  a daughter who is a teacher in the city's Head Start program; a ... where a family member works. This is, as the council and ethics board have agreed, too strong a prohibition. There's an important ...

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

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