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From: http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=48985
Article published on: September 6, 2007
<b>by Max Marbut
Staff Writer</b>

Having an effective ethics program in any environment is all about enhancing communication.
That’s how Carla Miller, the City’s recently-appointed ethics officer, described her task at hand.

<p><i>This is the complete text of Mayor John Peyton's speech to the
Jacksonville City Council in which he appoints City Ethics' Carla
Miller as Ethics Officer.</i><br>
<b>August 28, 2007</b>
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Peyton apologizes, promises reforms, looks to the future</h1>
<p>
These are demanding and difficult times for Jacksonville, a city with a
proud tradition of fiscal responsibility. </p>
<p>For the past 12 years, we have enjoyed the lowest

One of the 'latest things' in politics today is Drew Westen, a psych professor who advises the Democrats that they should be paying more attention to emotions than to policies (as, many say, the Republicans have been doing), because people's emotional reactions have a great effect on how they vote.

Louisiana legislators do not seem to like the state Board of Ethics. Earlier this year, two of them sued the Board of Ethics, based on a decision it made. Now the Legislature has passed a bill clearly intended to get rid of the Board's chief counsel, Gray Sexton.

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(Draft - personalize for your organization!)</b> <br></p>
<p>All board members and applicants shall agree to comply with the organization's ethics code and the ethical guidelines on conflicts adopted by the Board on______.</p>

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From: <a href="http://www.myjoyonline.com/archives/news/200704/3738.asp"><b>Ghana News Online</b></a>

An <b>excellent idea</b> for a grass-roots campaign to get some control of corrupt government employees in India.

<h2>Gandhi smiles on anti-bribe scheme</h2>
<b>Ashling O'Connor, Mumbai
<a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21529310-2703,00.htm… Times</i></a>
10 April 2007</b>

This is an excellent article by <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/th… Freidman</a> which really highlights something that I consider to be very important in the development of any sort of effective ethics program - namely <b>SIMPLICITY</b>. Often it is the really simple things combined with a bright idea that bring the greatest change for the better...