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City Ethics in the News ! Quoted in NY Times
City Ethics was present at the Ethics and Leadership Camp sponsored by the Markkula Center for Ethics at Santa Clara University on June 27 and 28, 2006. Carla Miller ...
donmc - 2008-04-17 07:26 - 0 comments
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Unacceptable Mischaracterization of an Ethics Settlement in D.C.
... administrative law judge settled with the D.C. Board of Ethics and Government Accountability (BEGA) this week (the settlement agreement is ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Where Ethics Provisions Should Appear and Not Appear
... clear that a state constitution is not the right place for ethics laws. Last November, an amendment to the state constitution was ... ruled that this amendment would prevent the child of a government official from a receiving a scholarship, or a state university ...
Robert Wechsler - 2007-06-18 14:09 - 0 comments
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My Use of Violent Imagery
... about the use of such imagery, especially with respect to government ethics. A search for "kill" on my blog led me mostly to quotations from ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Georgia's Aspirational Guidelines
Body: The City Ethics Model Ethics Code includes as an aspirational code the American ... and openness, without the fair treatment of citizens, a government cannot be democratic, not to mention ethical (supporting a truly democratic government is the principal ethical obligation of every municipal official). ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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District Attorney Insists, "My Staff Has Been Following My [Ethics] Rules"
... Supreme Court decision invalidating a Montgomery County's ethics code to the extent it applied to the employees of independent agencies, ... know whether they even cover the same areas as the county ethics code. Second, it is disconcerting in a discussion of an area that ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Dating, Marrying, and Gifts
Body: Government ethics is dangerous to dating and weddings. That's the message of an article ... trained EC member. The position should not be held by a government attorney, because most city and county attorneys are politically ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Carrigan Oral Argument: How to Deal with Vagueness
... Supreme Court in the Carrigan v. Nevada Commission on Ethics case, which I have been following over the past year, was the last oral argument of the term. Was this putting local government ethics in the caboose or saving the best for last? In the oral ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 5 comments
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Decriminalizing Ethics Codes
... of yesterday's blog entry , about jurisdictions that make ethics violations criminal and require a showing of guilt beyond a reasonable ... be substantial was a remote interest. The City Ethics Model Code Project makes ethics violations civil offenses , with a ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Constituent Services and Preferential Treatment Provisions
Body: On April 30, the D.C. ethics board reached a settlement with a council member (attached; see below), ... involve doing business with or being regulated by the government. These are the areas where most ethical misconduct occurs. Constituent services are about dealing with ordinary government services, the paperwork of citizens rather than businesses, ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
