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1. Using Local Government Employees for Private Purposes

   ... employees for private purposes is one of the most common ethics code violations. This violation is especially bad because it ... The saddest sentence in the article is as follows: The report said [the buildings and grounds supervisor] ordered the work even when ...

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

2. Law Firm Turns to Logical Fallacies to Defend Its Non-Compliance with Ethics-Related Subpoenas

   ... are once again insisting that they are an exception to ethics laws. The Moreland Commission, a special investigatory commission called ... it cannot know who the legislator's clients are? A 2010 report by the New York City Bar Association, Reforming New York State's ...

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

3. Time Limits on Investigations

   ... after an editorial in that same paper. Alabama's state ethics laws apply to local officials. The big embarrassment was inserting ... for opinions. Arkansas has a 60-day limit for a preliminary report to the commission, upon which the commission can request further, ...

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

4. The Intoxication of Gifts and Fellowship

   ... participants, "it was not expensive enough that we had to report it" (the bottom limit was $200). What did the liquor distributor ... we're human and that, because of this, there have to be good ethics laws to prevent our humanness from being tested. Robert Wechsler ...

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

5. Lessons to share from ethics reform in Winter Park

   ... December 17, 2007 Winter Park recently adopted an ethics-reform package, becoming the first local government to accept the ... task force appointed by Orange County commissioners. Their report goes much further, however, calling for campaign-finance reforms, among ...

   donmc - 2007-12-18 10:27 - 0 comments

6. A Classic Fiefdom and a Problem with Long-Term Municipal Representation

   ... the section on fiefdoms in my book Local Government Ethics Programs ). This case is especially interesting to me, since I live in ... of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) (in a March 2012 report) had confirmed or discovered a number of problems that don't appear to ...

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

7. Lawsuits, Legal Fees, and County Attorney Conflicts in El Paso Ethics Complaints Battle

   ... of a big corruption probe , a pair of back-and-forth ethics complaints filed with a nearly toothless ethics commission in El ... The candidate said that she'd included it in her report, but had not put it in the bank and, in fact, had asked the state ethics ...

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

8. Section 1: Conflict of Interest

   Part A: Ethics Provisions §100. General Conflict of Interest Provisions. ... a member of the immediate family of a member of a board, commission or task force is employed by the City of New Haven; ... someone has violated this code, he or she is required to report it to the relevant individual, either the employee’s supervisor, the ...

   donmc - 2006-11-23 22:28 - 0 comments

9. Truth Is Too Slippery, and Too Precious, A Thing to Enforce

   Body:  The biggest thing missing from ethics codes is lying. Everyone agrees that a government official or employee ... race. It is before a three-judge ethics panel, which will report to the state supreme court, on which the winning candidate sits. ...

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

10. A Conflict Built into Municipal Campaign Finance Enforcement in Connecticut

    Body:  Sometimes, conflicts are built right into ethics laws, partly because it is in the political interest of those with ... opponent for, say, the late filing of a campaign finance report, but does not fine a colleague, or himself, for a similar late filing, ...

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

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