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1. Bullying an Ethics Board Pays Off in Sioux Falls

   ... Body:  It staggers the imagination how combative local government officials can sometimes be with respect to ethics commissions. A year ago, I wrote about a former Sioux Falls (SD) ...

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

2. EC vs. IG: A Battle It's Better Not to Have

   ... failure to work out in advance the relationship between an ethics commission and an inspector general's office has led to the locking of ... the head of the local League of Women Voters or other good government organization. Even better is to have a provision in the ethics ...

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

3. Legislative Immunity: The Courts Are Wrong to Not Distinguish Ethics Enforcement from Prosecution and Civil Suits

   ... decisions in the legislative immunity cases relating to government ethics is how little they attempt to distinguish cases outside the ethics field ...

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

4. Winter Reading: Switch I - Situational Forces

   ... single city and county in the United States. Those seeking government ethics reform can learn a lot from this book. There are two different ...

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

5. Summer Reading: The Righteous Mind I

   ... that does not, from its title, appear to have much value for government ethics. But Haidt's approach to morality, and his look at how people approach ...

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

6. How Should Ethics Reform Be Done?

   Body:  The ethics reforms coming out of New York and Utah provide two contrasting, yet ... of public participation in this process intended to make government more transparent and the shortcomings of what the Legislature is ... themselves than they did on everyone else. At the local government level, should mayors frustrated with councils' inaction make ethics ...

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

7. Jacksonville's Recent Ethics Code Revisions

   Body:  Jacksonville's Ethics Commission recently went through a two year revision process of their City's Ethics Code. The resulting updates were finally ratified by the City Council ... in order to better promote and preserve the integrity of the government decision-making process." Clay commissioners understand that ...

   donmc - 2007-12-03 10:52 - 0 comments

8. The Wrong Kind of Ethics Reform in Park Ridge, IL

   Body:  Ethics reform can take the oddest forms, especially when those doing it put on ... officials. A city attorney should not be involved in a government ethics program, and certainly should have no say in whether a ... not only its ethics enforcement process, but its entire government ethics program, so that it can be both independent and professional. ...

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

9. Lobbying An Ethics Commission Should Be Lobbying

   ... lobbying cap.jpg Body:  Can a local ethics commission be lobbied? It's conceivable, especially with respect to ... least in those jurisdictions that have any limits on which government boards and agencies their lobbying laws apply to. Who would think ...

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

10. The Ethics of Vote Trading

    ... Body:  As I near the end of writing my local government ethics book, I am going over local government ethics codes looking for unusual, ...

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

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