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1. The Need for an Independent Ethics Commission in San Bernardino County

   ... San Bernardino County (CA) looks like it might soon have an ethics commission. After numerous scandals, two of five members of the county's ... daunting. While officials insist that San Bernardino County government is now free of graft and corruption, county employees, activists and ...

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

2. Good and Bad News from Three Cities

   ... is that newly-elected mayor A. C. Wharton, Jr. issued an ethics executive order last week (attached; see below). The order's provisions, ... right than as a prod to the council to improve the current ethics code . The order's provisions are to be enforced by the city's ...

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

3. Gwinnett County Ethics Reform I - The Failure to Follow Formal Processes

   ... in the last decade. But boom times are rarely good for local government ethics, and Gwinnett County appears to be no exception. A grand jury ...

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

4. Ethics in Congress VI - Quotations and Ideas (Summer Reading)

   ethics in congress.jpg Body:  My last post about Dennis F. ... to control these other kinds of influence." "Honest government is a good in itself” and it is also a precondition for the making ... disclosure may merely further undermine confidence in government, causing citizens to suspect the motives of legislators but ...

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

5. Lobbying Oversight Programs Are Hot in Canada

   ... Here the best news is that the chapter of my book Local Government Ethics Programs on lobbying (along with a Model Lobbying Code) should be ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2014-12-17 14:27 - 0 comments

6. State-Mandated Ethics Reform and Political Culture

   ... In many states without state enforcement of local government ethics, the compromise position pushed particularly by local government officials is to have the state mandate local ethics codes, but ...

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

7. Nevada Legislative Immunity Decision Comes Down -- A Bit Too Far For My Taste

   ... article on the decision, which says that the ethics commission plans to appeal the decision. Despite its finding ... state legislators, there is good news for local government ethics practitioners. Since the state constitution does not have ... officer of the Legislative Department of State Government under Article 4, Section 4 of the Nevada Constitution. Legislative ...

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

8. The New, Leaky Utah Legislative Ethics Complaint Process

   ... a federal third circuit decision that a law prohibiting an ethics complainant from announcing the filing of the complaint violates the ... a law prohibiting the announcing of the filing of a judicial ethics complaint. In this light, the brand new Utah legislative ethics ...

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

9. Citizens' Views of Ethics Reform in Jacksonville

   ... write about Jacksonville much, because my colleague at City Ethics, Carla Miller, is the city's ethics officer. She has been working hard ... We had no power, and we were constantly rebuffed. Local government officials simply paid lip service to the efforts of the commission. ...

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

10. 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 ). Although local government was scarcely mentioned (there was one image of a painting ...

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

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