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1. Kansas City (MO) Takes a Big Step Toward Ethics Reform

   ... Kansas City, MO's mayor , Sly James, the KC Commission on Ethics Reform will be holding a public hearing tomorrow on its draft ethics code. It's clear from the draft that the commission made ...

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

2. A New Report on the Ethics Programs of Florida Counties

   ... a report entitled "Florida Counties Bridge the Ethics Policy Gap" , which analyzes the results of a survey of government ethics programs and reforms in 45 of Florida’s 67 counties. Besides a lot of statistics of the sort lacking in local government ethics, this report looks closer into the actions taken in certain counties ...

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

3. Oakland Council Proposes Ethics Reform Charter Amendment

   ... in November, that would increase the authority of the city's ethics commission and provide it with the funds it needs to do its ... is, in some ways, an excellent reform package. This ethics reform process began with a June 2013 civil grand jury report , which ...

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

4. Palm Beach County Ethics Program Has Passed

   ... Commissioners passed three ordinances, establishing a new ethics and lobbying code , ethics commission , and inspector general . The most interesting ...

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

5. Public Servants Should Not Take Action Against Those Who File Non-Frivolous Ethics Complaints Against Them

   ... congressman goes after a lawyer whose organization filed an ethics complaint against him (in his capacity as Colorado's secretary of ... complaint with the state Supreme Court, accusing a Colorado Ethics Watch attorney of wrongly claiming that the state ethics commission ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment

6. Fighting Last Year's War Is Not the Way to Draft an Ethics Code

   Body:  Type "ethics" into the search line at utah.gov, and all that comes up is Archery Ethics Course Online. In response to what are referred to in Utah as last year's "ethics wars," a new legislative ethics bill has been drafted. What is ...

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

7. Partisan Nomination of Ethics Commission Members

   ... town of 11,000 near Albany. And the appointment involves an ethics commission, turning the question into:  should EC appointments be done ... of the town board moved a name for appointment to the ethics board (for a post that had been empty for five months), a member of ...

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

8. Disappointing Report from Ethics Task Force in Phoenix

   ... has followed Chicago in taking a task force approach to ethics reform. As in Chicago, the mayor selected the task force. The Ethics Task Force, which according to an article in the Arizona Republic ...

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

9. A Discrimination Complaint Against the Montgomery County (MD) Ethics Commission

   ... I think it's safe to say that a local government ethics "first" has occurred in Montgomery County, Maryland. A transgendered council aide has filed a complaint against the county ethics commission on the grounds that the EC investigated her because of her ...

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

10. How to Undermine Trust in the Ethics Process

    ... or procedure [than having the city council enforce the ethics code], I would like to hear about it.” According to an article ... by council members against a citizen who called the city's ethics hotline with a complaint against two of them. Well, Mr. Chairman, ...

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

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