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1. The Tough Way to Revive a Moribund Ethics Commission

   ... was confirmed by the county legislature. Meanwhile, the term of one member expired, while another resigned, leaving one member, who ... what the county executive's communications director said in response to the report, according to an article in the Tonawanda News ...

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

2. An Ethics Officer Worth Emulating

   ... carla 1.jpg Body:  It's rare to find a newspaper article that truly appreciates the work a city ethics ... select areas. She’s locked into the job for a three-year term unless the nine-member ethics commission votes to remove her “for ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2013-01-17 08:58 - 0 comments

3. Caring About Process

   Body:  When the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives says, "the American people don’t care about process" ... the health care bill), this topic, which is central not only to government ethics, but to our legal and political system, is worth focusing ... how important process is, instead of pandering to content-oriented concerns about the economy, terrorism, and the like, they will ...

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

4. A Crippling Case of Ethics Self-Enforcement

   ... invites future judicial candidates to push and distort the content of advertising in judicial campaigns as far past truthful communication ... If this court is unwilling or unable to keep its own house in order, perhaps it will require action by others to step in and assist ...

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

5. The Massachusetts EC Fixes a Poor Conflict Provision with an Exemption

   ... in some ways, irresponsible. They can recommend amendments to the provisions, but the legislative body is free to ignore such ... interest for the remainder of the pre-existing contract term ... if that contract, by its own terms, automatically renews on identical ...

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

6. Cases from the Salkin Roundup I

   ... ethics of land use . Her focus is on cases that have gone to court. I will be discussing a few of the cases in this and further blog ... schedule a public hearing, which had nothing to do with the content of the matter. But the town charter requires disclosure of a conflict ...

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

7. Institutional Corruption Conference I: Duplicitous Exclusion

   ... City, MO), many ideas that were discussed are applicable to local government ethics. I will start with the ideas of Mark Warren, a ... Vertical and Horizontal Accountability The key term of the paper and talk was "duplicitous exclusion," which Warren equates ...

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

8. Gifts to Officials' Family Members

   ... benefits from the city government (restricted sources) to family members of city officials. Such a prohibition may seem a stretch, at ... law should be changed. If officials prefer to keep just the term "indirect," it should be made clear that this term covers gifts to family ...

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

9. Seattle Rejects Public Financing and Embraces District Council Elections

   ... a big mistake last week. They voted for two related changes to their government. One was a public campaign financing program for citywide ... better ways to prevent institutional corruption, especially term limits. (Term limits serve a different purpose than public financing, and ...

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

10. Bridging the Gulf Between Administrative and Government Ethics

    ... corner of their field, which is administrative ethics. And to the extent government ethics courses are taught, they deal primarily with ... ethics program as a "compliance strategy" and applies this term similarly to its "many city- and state-level counterparts." In other ...

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

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