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1. Why It is Important to Make It Clear That Conflicts of Interest Are Not Wrong

   ... Jacksonville, Kansas City (KS), Milwaukee, Nashville, San Francisco, San Jose, and Seattle. In a couple of cases (Milwaukee and San ...

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

2. A Second Baltimore Legislative Immunity Decision: There Are Limits!

   ... one denotes the very limited testimony provided before the Grand Jury in this case as “non-substantive”, or merely “incidental to the ...

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

3. An Exemplary Ethics Officer Report on a Specific Ethics Matter

   Body:  An Ethics Matters newsletter from the Atlanta ethics officer is always a ... the local chamber of commerce, which meant that no report was legally due on gifts made for the occasion. After the local ... important it is to have an ethics officer. An ethics commission without professional staff that reports to it could not produce ...

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

4. Baltimore Mayor Indicted

   ... Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon, which was being taken before a grand jury. I focused on a series of ethical problems Mayor Dixon had in her ...

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

5. Is It a Conflict for a Pension Fund's Investment Officer to Propose Outsourcing to His Firm?

   Body:  After all the problems San Diego pension boards have had with conflicts of interest (see my blog pos ... Robert Wechsler Director of Research-Retired, City Ethics --- Robert Wechsler's blog Story Topics:  ...

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

6. Retired Citizens of Florida Speak out on Ethics

   ... Study of Public Corruption in Florida" by the 19th Statewide Grand Jury. According to the grand jury report, between 2000 and 2010 a total of ...

   cmiller - 2012-06-20 07:14 - 0 comments

7. Police Officers' Failure to Report Criminal Activity for Their Own Personal Interest

   ... Nassau and Suffolk County, police officers were arrested for grand larceny relating to a scheme to fraudulently get disability pensions ... of ethical misconduct (and a classic case of an unhealthy ethics environment), and it should be investigated and sanctioned. Every police ...

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

8. Maricopa County 4 - Local Government Attorney Prosecutions of Those They Represent

   Body:  One of the more interesting battles in the civil war among Maricopa County elected officials is the Battle of the Civil ... Robert Wechsler Director of Research-Retired, City Ethics --- Robert Wechsler's blog Story Topics:  ...

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

9. Local Government Sunshine Reform

   ... whether its state's laws are sufficient (remember, like all ethics laws, they provide only minimal requirements), whether these laws are ... issues seems to be gathering steam in California. Oakland, San Francisco, and a few smaller cities and counties already have ...

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

10. Report on Annual Reports II

    Body:  Because local governments' annual ethics reports serve so many purposes -- publicizing the ethics program's ... them up on the local government's website. My first report on annual reports focused on big cities and counties, and one state. ...

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

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