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The Image Consultant's Role in Local Government Ethics
... Communications , which primarily works to control the media coverage and preserve the reputation of companies and brands, but also ... act by a bad actor. An adversary trying to use the media for leverage. Sometimes the odds are against you. The roles in the drama ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Legal Ethics vs. Government Ethics
... the Detroit Free Press made two FOI requests for all documents relating to the settlement, and the corporation counsel oversaw ... of the settlement and the possible existence of additional documents before he sent [his subordinates] to represent the City at a hearing ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment
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Ethics Proceeding Confidentiality Takes a Hit in Utah, Logically Enough
... allowed, but everything the EC does, from meetings to documents. The Tribune editors point to an essential problem with such ... it comes to ethics codes. Thank goodness for the news media. The criticisms of the bills worked. The sponsor of the bills, Sen. John ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Detroit and the Loyalties of Local Government Attorneys
... The Detroit Free Press asked for all the settlement documents, but the city law department, acting under the guidance of the division chief, only provided the newspaper with the public documents, knowingly withholding documents solely to protect the personal ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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How and Why to Bring Budget Transparency to a City Near You
... unusual) is dated April 2011. There are only two 2012 budget documents between the annual budgets. Monthly Reports But in May ... to reading monthly reports, budgets, and other financial documents so that the public, especially journalists and bloggers, can ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Lessig on the Effects of Elected Officials' Dependency Problem
... permit applications, grant applications, all those documents that, for most of us, simply exist. Those documents that get very little press, and whose authorship is not accomplished ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Restorative Justice in Government Ethics
... There is also a strong desire among the public and the news media to see politicians as untrustworthy rather than to find a way to ... would be told in a way that the public, including the news media, could understand far better than something resembling a trial. And the ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Why It Is Important To Ensure That Legislators Show Up to Work
... easy ways to get this information across: through the news media and through one's website. Cook's website has no press releases, ... illness or her absences. There are very few mentions in news media available online. Cook is herself doing what no civil or criminal ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Self-Interest and the Transparency of Local Government Ethics Proceedings
... him the right to demand that the complaint and all other documents be made public. Or perhaps that's not the real issue. What seems ... board didn't stop Staggers, because it's all over the news media. But Staggers did not want to talk about the issues, he wanted to attack ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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An Analysis of League City TX's Ethics Program
... board is discussing this. So, hopefully, all the necessary documents will become easily available to those who are supposed to be guided ... undermine the harassment that occurs online and in the news media by providing advice and quickly dismissing frivolous complaints to ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
