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City staffers get ethics introduction

Thursday, December 6th, 2007
donmc

The Jacksonville Daily Record today published a story covering the first ethics training since the new code revisions were ratified by Council on Tuesday last week.
"Miller instructed the Council staff not to get too bogged down in the technicalities of the law, but to adopt an overall ethical mind set to help guide their decision-making."

Press: Daily Record Article - 6 December 2007

Posted Thu, 2007-12-06 01:00

City staffers get ethics introduction

From: http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=48985

The entire City Council staff met Wednesday to hear an introduction to the City’s new ethics code. The group will meet again today to further discuss specific instances where the code could impact their work.

12/06/2007
by David Ball
Staff Writer

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Australia signs the Kyoto Protocol (at last...)

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
donmc
See: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071203-AP-aus-kyoto.html
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd signed the instrument of ratification in his first act after being sworn in this morning.
The ratification will come into force in 90 days.

Government transparency website...

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
donmc
Found this site today:
http://www.governmentdocs.org/
Their Description: www.governmentdocs.org was created to advance the values of open and accountable government. This site gives the public an unprecedented level of access to government documents by allowing users to browse, search, and review hundreds of thousands of pages acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and other...

Jacksonville's Recent Ethics Code Revisions

Monday, December 3rd, 2007
donmc
Jacksonville's Ethics Commission recently went through a two year revision process of their City's Ethics Code. The resulting updates were finally ratified by the City Council last Tuesday night. See the Times Union article below... Note that I will get the code revisions up in a separate blog entry later.

From: http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/113007/opl_221526913.shtml.

Voter ID Laws

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Robert Wechsler

Voter ID laws, which are being pushed by the Bush Administration and by Republicans at the state level, have an effect on municipal elections, as well. They are not only a federal and state problem.

The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, a leader in the fight for more ethical and inclusive voting laws, as well as campaign finance laws, has placed a...

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