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When a Respondent Seeks to Meet with a Complainant
... Body: An interesting question arose in an ethics proceeding in Kennesaw, GA, a city of 30,000 just outside of Atlanta. ... blog post , both dated July 17, soon after an ethics complaint was filed against the city's mayor, the mayor sent two text ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment
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ERC Releases Report:
Body: The Ethics Resource Center in Washington DC has released an interesting document for anyone active in the Ethics & Compliance Officer field - see the quotes below which give a taste ... the link to the paper. It may be elsewhere... [quote=The Ethics Resource Center (See: http://www.ethics.org/CECO/ )]"This paper ...
donmc - 2015-05-15 14:06 - 0 comments
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Winter Reading: Switch I - Situational Forces
... and county in the United States. Those seeking government ethics reform can learn a lot from this book. There are two different types of ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Ethical Responsibility of a Local Party Committee
... too many elections. The chair's concern is not about ethics, of course, but about the competence and sanity of selected candidates. ... RPOFOathofPartyLoyaltyandEthicalConduct.pdf 0 bytes Robert Wechsler's blog ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Mayoral and Council Interference with EC Member and Staff Selection
Body: The independence of ethics commissions and their staff is the single most important aspect of a government ethics program. Who selects the commission members and their staff, and how, colors everything about an ethics program and determines, more than any other factor, whether the public ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Chicago Compliance and Integrity Survey
... that its Office of Compliance commissioned from the Ethics Resource Center , a primarily corporate ethics and compliance research organization. Here are some of the ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Ginny Looney
... One of the most important figures in local government ethics passed away last week at the young age of 61, after a relapse of ovarian cancer. Virginia "Ginny" Looney was Atlanta's first Ethics Officer. She was appointed by Mayor Shirley Franklin, who conceived ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment
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How ECs Can Preserve Their Full Allotment of Members
... allow this to happen. But it is not that unusual for an ethics commission, through term endings and resignations, to drop below the ... Even one or two open seats can make it very hard for an ethics commission to get a quorum. An ethics commission without a quorum can do ... Ethics Commissions/Administration Ethics Reform ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Being Indirect -- A Gift Loophole to Watch Out For
... this week, I wrote about an application of Louisiana ethics law that I felt was too severe. Today I'm going to write about a Louisiana ethics provision, a fairly typical gift provision that applies to local ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A Miscellany
... The Charter's the Answer In Jacksonville, where City Ethics' president, Carla Miller, is the ethics officer, the charter revision commission unanimously voted to give the ... Codes Ethics Commissions/Administration Ethics Reform Jurisdiction In the news ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
