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1. Subcontractors and Indirect Benefits

   ... board was an owner of a subcontractor on a police crime lab construction project, getting 40% of the revenues, the county counselor and ... “To be honest, we shouldn’t have gotten the crime lab job.” The partners split, and the work on the crime lab came to at least ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

2. Very Problematic Fort Worth Ethics Reform Proposals

   ... Five, Fort Worth has an Ethics Review Committee (ERC) that provides ethics advice. Setting up an alternate ethics adviser allows ... Worth now has a weak provision regarding the selection of ERC members. The council is required to "develop a list of community, civic and ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

3. A Miscellany

   ... requirement out of the ordinance would seem to allow the ERC members to meet in private, to hold unannounced meetings, and make ... the meetings in public. It was understood by staff that the ERC would comply with the mayor's directions." So in Boerne, presumably, the ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

4. Ethics Commission Meetings -- Passivity Doesn't Cut It

   ... in five years. That means there are probably people on the ERC that have never attended a single meeting, who probably don't even think ... ethics. The article quotes him as saying that the ERC is "just not something I spend a lot of time on." See an earlier blog ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

5. Chicago Compliance and Integrity Survey

   ... are to the local government portion (pages 31-35) of the ERC's 2007 National Workplace Ethics Survey Ethics Environment:  62% ... from supervisors, and 41% vs. 26% from coworkers). The ERC's executive summary recommends that the 2007 compliance program has been ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

6. Institutional Corruption Conference III: Cultures of Loyalty and Mutual Trust

   ... At the Institutional Corruption Conference sponsored by Harvard's Safra Center last Saturday, Bruce Cain, a professor at UC ... that leads to the loyalty problem. Robert Putnam, a Harvard professor best known for his book Bowling Alone , suggested that we ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

7. SPIDERWEB

   ... upon the research of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University. These materials will be the foundation for crowdsourcing ...   CARLA MILLER Network Fellow Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics   ...

   cmiller - 2013-10-28 22:15

8. When Conflicts Can Help a Town Save Money -- And How to Handle Them

   ... Committee, whose members are appointed by the mayor. This ERC member/negotiator happened to have recently consulted for a company to set ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

9. Holding Elected Officials to a Higher Standard

   ... It's not clear what happened to the complaints, but the ERC's chair told the Times , "For myself, I'll have to see ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

10. Ethics in Congress I - Institutional Corruption (Summer Reading)

    ... Despite the book's title, Thompson (a professor at Harvard) has a great deal to say about government ethics that is equally ... project at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard, which Thompson helped found. The Center's director, Lawrence Lessig, ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

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