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1. Gifts from National and State Associations

   Body:  Many of the most difficult situations in government ethics involve relationships that are not direct. For example, situations where ...

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

2. Divulging Confidential Information Is Not a Conflict If It Only Benefits Someone Politically

   ... In a recent blog post on the new Michigan Model Local Government Ethics Ordinance, I noted in passing that the model wrongfully made divulging ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 2 comments

3. Dallas Ethics Reforms Pass, But There Are Enforcement Problems

   Body:  The Dallas ethics reforms described in a recent blog post were passed on Monday, ... is still very weak. First of all, the ethics commission is completely passive. It can act only upon a complaint. ... deference to his wishes on the project. Ethics reforms that depend on self-regulation rarely hold up under ...

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

4. Chicago Task Force Second Report I — The Good Recommendations

   ... Body:  The second report of the Chicago Ethics Reform Task Force came out this week (see my posts on the first ... 1. Add clear settlement and waiver provisions. As the ethics task force recognizes, settlements should not only be permitted, ...

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

5. Being Wrong I (Summer Reading)

   ... that a bigger problem than unethical conduct in local government is the way local officials respond to allegations of government ethics violations. Kathryn Schulz's excellent book, Being Wrong: Adventures ...

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

6. Ethics Reform Task Force Report Released in Philadelphia

   Body:  Yesterday, Philadelphia's Task Force on Ethics and Campaign Finance Reform released a 58-page report (plus ethics laws) requested by the city's mayor and council president in 2008. ...

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

7. Covering Political Party Officers

   Body:  Who is covered by an ethics code can be very important. In Baltimore, for instance, as I wrote in ... about jurisdiction over contractors paid with local government funds, but not directly by the local government. Another important group of people are those who wield a great ...

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

8. Independent Redistricting (and Ethics) Works

   Body:  In ethics, there are two basic approaches: (1) an ends-based approach, also ... approach, also referred to as rules-based or deontological. Government officials, and most people when speaking about government, generally use the former, while government ethics uses the latter. ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 2 comments

9. The Ethics of Municipal Pension Plans Revisited

   ... Four years after I wrote a blog post entitled The Ethics of Today's Municipal Pension Plan Problems , according to an op-ed ... pension mess we're in is a way for elected officials to make government employees (and themselves, of course) happy without letting the ...

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

10. Congress Teaches Civics Course in Ethics Self-Regulation

    Body:  Government officials should, I think, focus more on what their actions teach ... have been giving us a course on how self-regulation in the ethics sphere simply doesn't work. According to an editorial in today's New York Times, the House ethics committee has been without a chief counsel for eight months. Not only ...

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

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