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Regional Public Integrity Officers in New York State
... At the same time there is talk of local government ethics reform in New York State, the new attorney general has his own plan for ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Paper Tigers
... Body: Local government officials often defend halfway ethics reforms by saying that they're just the beginning, and that something is ... trust is undermined. Paper tiger compromises in ethics reform are not good in the long run, and they are not necessarily better than ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Political Activity on the Job
Body: The ethics provision that is probably most consistently violated is the one about political activity in city or county hall. The City Ethics Model Code Project version reads as follows: An official, ... do (see an earlier blog entry on such coercion). Most ethics scandals involve misuse of office for financial gain, but money means ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Counter-Allegations Against Montana's Political Practices Commissioner
Body: You're a government official who has had an ethics complaint filed against you. You want it go away. What do you do? ... a counterclaim. The odd thing here is that the Montana ethics commissioner can seek the removal of an elected official from the 2014 ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Report on Annual Reports II
Body: Because local governments' annual ethics reports serve so many purposes -- publicizing the ethics program's existence, educating officials and the public about what an ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Unethical Harassment and Wearing Logos
... from the Anchorage Daily News, "Palin Calls Blogger's Ethics Complaint Bogus," and saw that it had to do with clothing the governor ... respond? Ralf Seekins (Fairbanks, R) just wrote a bill making complaints anonymous until proven. It will probably get passed. ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 11 comments
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EC Member Political Activity and the Perception of Fairness
Body: The perceived independence of an ethics commission is extremely important. This perceived independence has ... perceived not to be fair undermines a local government's ethics program. The solution to this aspect of the problem is to have ... is the political activity of selected EC members. Most ethics codes limit party affiliation, so that no party has a majority of EC ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A Miscellany
Body: Outside Ethics Commission Members According to an article in yesterday's ... decided to look outside his town for members of an ad hoc ethics commission to deal with an ethics complaint arising from a zoning appeals board decision. "It's not ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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What We Can Learn from Walmart's Extensive Bribery in Mexico
... The report raises a few important local government ethics issues. One is the independence of investigators. A ... governments just as much as businesses. At least corporate ethics recognizes this, while local governments, on the whole, do not. ... high-level officials or executives should not be selecting ethics commission members or special investigators, nor should they have any ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Increased EC Authority and Access to Annual Disclosure in California
... which takes an odd, hybrid approach to local government ethics. It has a state ethics commission (the Fair Political Practices ... given only with respect to the provisions in the Political Reform Act. For some crazy historical reason, §1090 was never made part of the ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
