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1. EC Selection: Nonpartisanship and Independence

   ... you go to great lengths to ensure a nonpartisan, independent ethics body, there will be politicians who accuse it of being partisan when it ... and independence with respect to the selection of ethics body members. It is important to understand the distinctions among them. ...

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

2. Shorstein: lobbyist rules should be enforced

   ... As of Tuesday, discussions between the City Ethics Commission and Office of General Counsel were ongoing about how to ... regulations is attorney Paul Harden, whose written reply to Ethics Officer Carla Miller’s letter was the main topic of a special Ethics ...

   donmc - 2008-04-16 18:44 - 0 comments

3. A City Pension Board Attorney's Fiefdom

   ... I talk a lot about the importance of independent ethics commissions. But independence is not always a good thing for local ... without oversight, transparency, and independent ethics enforcement easily turns into someone's fiefdom. According to ... with the boards. And he makes no effort to give the boards ethics or transparency rules that might restrict them. However, in October, ...

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

4. The Need for a Taxonomy of Institutional Corruption in Local Government

   ... that lawyers, especially government lawyers, do not see ethics laws as ordinary laws with loopholes they use their cleverness to find ... commissions and their staff, government attorneys, ethics reform committees, grand juries, good government groups, and potential ...

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

5. Book Review: Jane Jacobs' Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics

   Body:  Not one of the recent books in my ethics library cites Jane Jacobs’ 1993 work, Systems of Survival: A ... I found on-line do not include any about government ethics. This is a big loss for the government ethics community, because Jacobs, ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2008-01-10 13:10 - 0 comments

6. Law Firm Turns to Logical Fallacies to Defend Its Non-Compliance with Ethics-Related Subpoenas

   ... are once again insisting that they are an exception to ethics laws. The Moreland Commission, a special investigatory commission called ... Karl Sleight, a former executive director of the state ethics commission, employed three logical fallacies in his defense of ...

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

7. Judge Allows Employees to Vote for Boss as Mayor in Chicago Heights

   ... so the court could not act. More evidence that ethics can be enforced only as part of an ethics program. Good ethics training, a good ethics code, and ethical leadership in the city would ...

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

8. Summer Reading: Judith Shklar's "The Faces of Injustice"

   ... would not appear to have much to do with government ethics. But there turns out to be much relevant food for thought. The ... of the way high-level local officials deal with government ethics. They do not see their misuse of office as causing suffering. They say, ...

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

9. Eastern Oregon Takes on Government Transparency

   ... all the financial disclosure that was required in a recent bill was the name of one’s employer, and yet the Connecticut Conference of ... is required to be disclosed. It’s from the new state ethics guide . Annual Verified Statement of Economic Interest Form: ...

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

10. The Difference Between Conflicts and Gifts

    ... between the two characterizes a situation that led to an ethics complaint in Los Angeles. According to an article on the KPCC ... likely intended to reward or influence him, the Los Angeles ethics code, like many ethics codes, does not consider the hiring of someone ...

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

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