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1. Ethical Governance Day in Miami-Dade County

   Body:  The Miami-Dade County ethics commission has been a leader in reaching out to the community. In 2011, it co-sponsored a local government ethics conference , which attracted people from all over Florida. ... governance and the value of citizen participation in government. It is a great thing to openly acknowledge that ...

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

2. Problems with the Perfectly Ordinary

   ... (TX) Gazette , there will be a perfectly ordinary local government ethics occurrence next Monday in Seguin, a town of 25,000 outside San Antonio: ...

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

3. Charitable Fundraising as an End Run Around Ethics Laws

   ... take food from the mouths of children just because of some ethics technicality? Click here to read the rest of this blog entry. ... not doing business with the state of Maryland.' Once again, government lawyers focus on the legal technicalities of sleeping positions, ...

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

4. The Ethics of Today's Municipal Pension Plan Problems

   ... Robert Wechsler Director of Research-Retired City Ethics, Inc. Robert Wechsler's blog Story Topics:  ...

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

5. The Gifts Dilemma

   ... There are two principal ways of dealing with gifts to government officials and employees, and both of them are unsatisfactory, ... Prohibition makes it clear that it is wrong for government officials and employees to accept gifts, at least from anyone who ... political parties, which ends up politicizing the ethics process. Instead of ridding politics of gifts, gifts end up ...

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

6. We Need a Support Network

   ... The principal reason is the structure of relationships. Government bureaucracies lose out to increasingly flexible networks of individuals. In the municipal ethics world, the situation is similar, but even worse outside the larger ...

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

7. NEW YORK CITY

   ... Interest Board The Conflicts of Interest Board is the ethics board for the City of New York and was created by the 1988 Charter ... preserve the public trust, to promote public confidence in government, to protect the integrity of government decision-making, and to ...

   donmc - 2006-05-24 10:38 - 0 comments

8. Publicizing Ethics Reform

   Body:  It is not enough to reform a city's ethics program. One must also let the world know about it. Most municipalities ... openness and ethics are to getting people to participate in government, to making our municipalities more truly democratic. Let me know as ...

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

9. Confusing Pre-Existing Conflicts with Conflicts Created by Events

   ... conflicts of interest are in and of themselves bad, and that government ethics laws should prevent those with conflicts of interest from becoming ...

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

10. When Is an Ethics Commission "Independent"?

    Body:  Ethics commissions appointed by local legislative bodies, mayors, or county ... allegiance that is controlling. The same is true with ethics commissions. Whenever an EC dismisses a case against an appointing party ... they appear to be independent (without allegiances to government officials), so that the public can reasonably believe ...

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

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