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A Miscellany
Body: Ethics Reform as Part of a Financial Assistance Deal Earlier this week I wrote ... pension plans, might have created an opening for ethics reform over the dead bodies of local officials who have only scorn for ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Post-EC Obligations
Body: Does a former ethics commission member have a special obligation not to make misstatements with respect to government ethics matters? This question arose from a 2010 case in Florida I just came ... the state senate president hired a former chair of the state ethics commission as his attorney. According to an Associated Press article ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Miami-Dade County's Cone of Silence, Prohibiting Oral Ex Parte Communications re Contracts
... of the county commission. Here's how the Miami-Dade County Ethics Commission describes the cone of silence provision: The Cone ... it anyways. The irony is not lost on government ethics professionals, who know that no ethics provision is foolproof, but ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A Miscellany
... to an article this week on the TribLive website , an ethics complaint was filed against an Allegheny County, PA council member for ... Committee on State and Local Government unanimously passed a bill that would allow local ethics commissions in Louisville and Lexington (why ... Ethics Commissions/Administration Ethics Reform ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Problems with Reasonable Perception Language and Enforcement of General Policies
... a federal police grant. Due to poor language in the ethics code, and some poor interpretation, what is a fairly straightforward ... the General Policy provision, the first one in the Tulsa ethics code . The provision contains a mix of general policy and what appear ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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An Official's Possibly Conflicting Interests Are Public Information
... The city of 540,000 does not appear to have an ethics officer or commission, so this was the most reasonable alternative. ... in a matter where he has an interest, the public (usually an ethics commission, the news media, or a gadfly) can stop him from doing ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Gifts Dilemma
... political parties, which ends up politicizing the ethics process. Instead of ridding politics of gifts, gifts end up ... and this undermines the public's trust. The City Ethics Model Code gifts provision prohibits gifts from anyone doing business ... and that, wherever possible, it is best to keep government ethics from being politicized. Robert Wechsler Director of ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Pension Board Reform in California
... finance law. For another approach to pension board ethics reform, affecting some municipal pension funds, see the Illinois Municipal ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Hatch Act Bill Amended to Let Local Government Employees Run for Office
... very little, but a couple of weeks ago it actually passed a bill that will have a serious effect on local government ethics: the Hatch Act Modernization Act of 2012 According to a ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Public Servants and Free Speech
... unsuccessfully seeking an injunction against his ethics proceeding. The decision on his motion for a preliminary injunction ... court questioned whether what was being considered by the ethics board was in the sphere of the finance board member's sphere of ... can be raised by other local government officials. Ethics Terms Constitutionally Vague? On the First Amendment issue, the ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
