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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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A New Government Ethics Report from a New Florida Organization
... and criminal misconduct. The state has a weak state ethics commission, which has jurisdiction over local officials, and until recently only one good local government ethics program, in Miami/Dade County (Jacksonville and Palm Beach County joined ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Info re Bidding for a Large Dallas Ethics Training Contract
... contract for "the assessment of the City’s current ethics guidelines and the development of an ethics training program." City Ethics was a partner in the losing bid of the ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Who Should Pay for Attorney's Fees in Ethics Proceedings?
... The article is referring to attorney's fees related to an ethics proceeding. Most ethics codes do not deal with this issue, and therefore it often turns into a ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Politicians on an Ethics Commission, EC Self-Regulation, and Other Interesting Issues That Arise from One Matter in Tulsa
... an article in the Tulsa World , last week the city's Ethics Advisory Committee (EAC) ruled in favor of one of its members, Michael ... in Tulsa to vote on an important matter. She asked the state ethics commission for advice on this, but not her own city's EAC. The state ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment
