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Nevada Senator Given Legislative Immunity from Ethics Commission Jurisdiction
... did not have jurisdiction over a state senator on grounds of legislative immunity, even though the state constitution has no Speech or ... a prelimary injunction (it's broken into two searchable PDF files, 1 and 2 ), the senator's petition for judicial review , and ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Fire, Smoke, and Snowballs
... It's valuable to put government ethics in the larger context of the use of public office for private purposes that does not involve ... Rosenfeld spent thirty years getting hold of FBI files on its surveillance of the University of California at Berkeley, ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 2 comments
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Stamford Official's Attempt to Prevent Government Employees from Filing Ethics Complaints Is Nipped in the Bud
... that the city employee who filed the complaint "violated the code because in filing a complaint he sought to preserve his employment with ... According to this argument, a government employee who files an ethics complaint has a conflict of interest, because he is presumably ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Why Local Party Leaders Should Be Part of a Local Ethics Program
... New York Times provides an excellent portrait of a government official who, although doing much good work, made it all about ... develop affordable housing in Brooklyn, Lopez secured vacant sites for the RBSCC, making it almost impossible for anyone else to ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Very Problematic Fort Worth Ethics Reform Proposals
... get a zoning permit. The city attorney says he can. Someone files a complaint, and the official has the defense that he followed the city ... to make advisory committee members not subject to the ethics code, so that they may sit despite serious conflicts of interest. I deal ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A Very Short Rant on Financial Disclosure and Ethics Self-Regulation
... to strip Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) of his gavel," did not disclose large profits from a sale of Exxon stock, even ... a businessperson or professional who knows how to keep files and how to work with an accountant. If they can't even be honest about ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A City Where "We Don't Want Nobody Nobody Sent"
Body: Patronage is the most basic of all municipal conflicts of interest. It involves not only self-interest (my ... ratings, the rigging of test scores, and the destruction of files (the shredding business thrives on identity theft and ethics laws). And, ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Council Ethics Committees
... consist of nothing more than a council ethics committee and code of conduct, but that situation is not the topic of this blog post. ... the city's ethics program, perhaps after the ethics board files its annual report. It could hold an annual training session. It could ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A Miscellany
... said a public investigation is in line with his support of open government. 'In the continued spirit of a fair and transparent process, ... Board of Commissioners amended the city/county's ethics code to prohibit a nonprofit agency from receiving public funding (unified ... content rules for comments on council members' sites or blogs, and letting the public know that what they write is open ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Effect of the Wisconsin Supreme Court Open Meetings Decision on Local Government Ethics
... unanimous. The one council member who opposed the contract files a complaint with the city's ethics commission, and the council president ... in any event, the council is not bound to follow the ethics code with respect to the passage of legislation. Will the court give the ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
