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1. Arguments Against Having City or County Attorney as Ethics Officer

   ... Body:  The role of the city or county attorney in an ethics program continues to be a major bone of contention, despite the fact that government ethics professionals generally take the position that the city or county ...

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

2. Ethics Camp - Christian Science Monitor

   ... Boot camp for city officials teaches 'a culture of ethics' At a seminar in California, municipal leaders learn how to ... were elected to serve. The viewers' "counselors" were ethics specialists wearing "moral compasses" around their necks and putting ...

   donmc - 2008-04-17 07:17 - 0 comments

3. Good and Bad News from Three Cities

   ... is that newly-elected mayor A. C. Wharton, Jr. issued an ethics executive order last week (attached; see below). The order's provisions, ... Size memphis exec order 120709.pdf 0 bytes Robert Wechsler's blog ... Ethics Officers Ethics Reform Political Activity/Patronage In the news ...

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

4. How to Deal Responsibly With a Conflict That Falls Between City and State Ethics Codes

   ... of interest, but are not dealt with in a local government ethics code. Two issues arise. One is the quality of the local government ethics code. The other is whether the code matters at all, if the conflict is ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 2 comments

5. Palm Beach County Business Coalition Gets Government Ethics

   ... Beach County (FL) really gets it. One reason is that City Ethics' Carla Miller has provided advice. The coalition consists of Leadership ... understands that no amount of legal or institutional reform will change the culture of a county where three former commissioners ...

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

6. Deception About Ethics Commission Approval and Another Problem with Ethics Self-Regulation

   ... involvement with Bruno had been cleared by the Legislative Ethics Panel when, in fact, they had not." What makes this so serious is ... that at a state level would amount to no larger than an ethics fine or misdemeanor charge." But isn't the federal involvement due to ...

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

7. Current Ethics Reform III - Prince George's County, MD and Kenosha, WI

   ... back in 2010. The new county executive vowed to make serious ethics reform a priority, and did some valuable things in 2011, according to ...

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

8. Ethics Creativity

   Body:  A favorite ploy in local government ethics is for a council to vote for an ethics code that includes an ethics commission, and then either not actually ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2010-11-05 19:59 - 0 comments

9. A New, But Very Weak Regional Ethics Program in Connecticut

   ... idea of yours becomes a reality. My pet idea is the regional ethics program, whose biggest successes have been of the countywide variety, ... this problem, but no others. This is also common: ethics reform to solve a particular problem, not to create an effective ethics ...

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

10. My Book Is Finally Available (and it's free)

    ... With the exciting title Local Government Ethics Programs , this is the first comprehensive resource book on the ... on different sorts of conflicts, it has chapters on ethics reform, ethics environments, and obstacles to overcome in instituting a quality ...

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

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