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A Miscellany
Body: The Boss of the Ethics Director's Bosses According to an article this week in the Free Times , an FOI lawsuit was filed against South Carolina's ethics commission, because its director had said that a letter informing the governor of an ethics violation had not been sent and had been destroyed, when in fact it was ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Lobbying, Influence, Bribery, and Gift-Giving in Alabama
... the Senate Committee on Constitution, Campaign Finance, Ethics and Elections, wrote a long piece last weekend for the Montgomery ... of the old culture as lobbyists complaining about ethics reform. Alabama still has a long way to go. Robert Wechsler Director of ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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More from Atlanta: The Usefulness of Advisories and of Seeking Comments on Draft Advisory Opinions
Body: According to the Atlanta ethics office's fall newsletter , the Atlanta Board of Ethics reached a settlement with a council member who sought reimbursement from ... for her actions. It so happens that an ethics advisory had been mailed in 2009 to all municipal candidates, telling ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A Miscellany
... On January 25, Philadelphia Mayor Nutter signed three ethics-related executive orders, which I would love to link you to, but ... except as a way to get the council moving on ethics reform, are executive orders that can't be found online? These orders deal with ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Quote of the Day
Body: "The worst thing you can do is read the [ethics] law like a lawyer and look for loopholes." —Richard H. A. ... in a training session with St. Lawrence County's new ethics board and other officials, according to an article in this week's ...
Robert Wechsler - 2010-09-01 15:22 - 0 comments
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Confidentiality vs. Transparency in Colorado -- A Court Decision
Body: Government ethics policies sometimes clash. The most common clash involving ethics commissions is with transparency laws. Like any government body, ethics commissions would prefer not to discuss many sorts of matters in public, ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 2 comments
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A Conflict Regarding Conflicts
... Nor did anyone seek advice from the Louisiana Board of Ethics, which has jurisdiction over local government officials. It's worth ... disclosure requirements, and they resigned en masse. Ethics reform was big news at the time in Louisiana. It was discussed on the front ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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An EC's Immune System
... courts have given legislators from enforcement actions by ethics commissions, I now can write about a court decision that gives ethics ... Size phil immunity decision 012810 ocr.pdf 0 bytes Robert Wechsler's blog ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Fitting Conflicts to Agencies and Departments
... One of the rarely questioned truisms of local government ethics is, "One size does not fit all." Usually this means that one ethics code is not right for every city or county, that every jurisdiction ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Local or State Jurisdiction Over Local Legislators?
Body: Is local government ethics enforcement appropriate for local legislators? This question is ... cases, it is local legislators who have been respondents in ethics enforcement proceedings, and some of their legislative colleagues. ... , a Wyandotte County commissioner was censured twice by the ethics commission, which requested that he resign (the commissioner refused to ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
