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Welcome to the City Ethics website!
... Council on Governmental Ethics Laws . (See: www.cogel.org ) It was felt that there was a real need to provide assistance to ... of codes of ethics Surveys on ethical issues Guidance on using federal standards in ethics ( Sarbanes Oxley and the ...
donmc - 2012-05-08 13:04 - 0 comments
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City Ethics Essentials
... I will be posting some of the best ideas from these programs on this site. If you have comments on what is written, good, bad or just a ... of employees and officials. Copyright ©2017 CityEthics - All rights Reserved www.cityethics.org ...
cmiller - 2017-06-21 02:56
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The Limitations of the Language of "Influence"
... David Paterson has been accused by the NY Commission on Public Integrity (CPI) of having violated the state's gift ban by asking for ... it is reasonable to infer intent to influence, and what guidance this tortured language provides to officials. However, the ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Bitterness Instead of Understanding
... of a memoir as an occasion to understand and to provide guidance to others, rather than to feed the anger and sense of betrayal and ...
Robert Wechsler - 2007-03-22 09:16 - 0 comments
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When Voting Is Damaging, No Matter What the Ethics Code Says
... a firefighter himself, wanted to know if he could vote on a plan to save the jobs of four city firefighters (he had already ... influence," something so vague as to provide very little guidance (and hard to enforce), and so narrow that it does not even consider ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Louisville's Middling Ethics Reforms
... In Louisville, the council spent two years working on, or fighting about, the city's ethics reforms. The city started out with a ... and the like, that is, language that provides limited guidance and creates obstacles to enforcement, especially because the language ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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General Advisory Opinions Are Very Useful
... very wise and valuable: it drafted an advisory opinion on nepotism rules , gathering information from years of partial, specific ... what situations they apply to and do not apply to. Guidance before the fact is the most important role of an ethics commission. ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Ethics Reform via Referendum, and Some Valuable Practices from New York City
... an investigation. If the violation did occur, valuable guidance has been given. If not, the official can ignore the letter.This seems ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Officials' Inaction and Anger
... Recorder criticized the county commissioner for "sitting on the sidelines" for eight years as scandals "rocked" the county government, ... where the local government is not providing professional guidance, a situation solved by establishing an effective ethics program. When ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Need for a Revolving Door Provision, and More, in Hartford
... by a council member against the former corporation counsel on the grounds that he had taken a job with a law firm that had received ... would have provided the corporation counsel with the guidance he needed in order to choose a job that would not undermine trust in ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
