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Quote of the Day
... "Trying to protect public officials from warrantless ethics complaints is a fruitless task; there will always be some who ... , in response to a call by a council member to make ethics board proceedings more confidential. Robert Wechsler's ... Complaints/ Investigations/Hearings Ethics Reform Transparency ...
Robert Wechsler - 2012-06-12 08:49 - 0 comments
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A Miscellany
Body: Government Executives and the Ethics Commission Selection Process Should government chief executives appoint ethics commission members or their staff? The common practice is that they ... of political practices , the office that runs the state's ethics program. According to an article in yesterday's Great Falls ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Serious Penalties — Criminal vs. Civil
... going to keep showing how wrong the criminal enforcement of ethics laws is until there is at least some sign of movement away from it. This ... Size mass-picano disposition 0211.pdf 0 bytes Robert Wechsler's blog ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Fiduciary Duty of Government Consultants
Body: A recent City Ethics blog post discusses the value of a functional definition of a government employee with respect to government ethics. That is, a private individual who does government work for the ... (see the discussion in my book Local Government Ethics Programs ; scroll down a half page after clicking), it is fair to say ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Jacksonville Daily Record Interview - Carla Miller
... July 4, 2006 Miller's ethics advice travels well by Bradley Parsons , Staff Writer ... & Jolly , also serves as the City of Jacksonville''s co-ethics officer. She oversaw the development of the City''s ethics code, which is attracting international attention as more governments ...
donmc - 2008-04-17 07:24
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EC Members and the Law-Ethics Distinction
Body: Should ethics commission members follow ethics laws to the letter, and no further, or should they provide leadership ... words that only the letter of the law matters in government ethics. According to an article in yesterday's New York Daily News ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A Miscellany
Body: More Costs of Not Having an Ethics Program Local officials are always complaining about the cost of an ... because he resigned. It felt that it would be more useful to reform the authority's contracting procedures, impose checks and balances on ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A Gift of Books: Intellectual vs. Monetary Value
... this, others think the book is really useful. The ethics code says that no one can give any official "anything of value if it ... is not the monetary value of the book, which is what the ethics code assumes, but the book's ideas, its intellectual value. This makes ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Preferential Treatment and Zoning Enforcement
... of discrimination won't do it. Owens does not consider ethics complaints. One reason, I would guess, is that in the hypothetical he ... a neighbor's opponent in a council race the neighbor won. An ethics complaint won't give her any damages for loss of her business (her many ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Making a Gray Area Black and White
Body: Gray areas in local government ethics don't necessarily have to be gray areas. According to an article ... approved. Here is the relevant language in the city's ethics code: Sec. 2-812. Participation in Contracts. No official or ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
