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1. Current Ethics Reform I - Orange County and Oakland, CA

   ... the second edition of the book Local Government Ethics Programs , there was a lot of action in the area of ethics reform. In the next few blog posts, I will summarize the action. ...

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

2. The Way to Deal with Baltimore's Ethics Director's Conflict Situation

   ... questioned the fitness of Baltimore's government ethics director for his job, an opinion piece called for him to be fired, and a Sun article appeared under the headline "Ethics oversight board hasn't met in years," finally a rational voice has ...

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

3. Ethics Attacks and Ethics Reform

   ... blog post yesterday about the upside of election time ethics attacks on opponents. "Current political thinking generally laments ... "if a politician is concerned about being accused of an ethics violation, he (or she) will do a better job at policing himself." This ...

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

4. Moral Clarity III - Ethics Environments

   ... each of us underestimates his or her vulnerability to bad ethics environments.  Becoming aware of this vulnerability is “the first ... rotten apples. We each need to focus on our own role in our ethics environment, what we do to enable others’ unethical conduct, what we ...

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

5. Ethics Self-Regulation Exposed by Ethics Complaint

   Body:  Sometimes even a wrongheaded ethics complaint can do good, by showing how wrongheaded a town's government ethics program is. According to an editorial in The Day this week , ... local political party, Independence for Montville, filed an ethics complaint alleging that a former council member who owns a hot dog ...

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

6. How Not To Accomplish Ethics Reform

   Body:  Here are three instances of ethics reform that, I hope, would not happen if someone involved had read the chapter on ethics reform in my Local Government Ethics Program book . Copying a ...

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

7. Blind Spots III — Ethics Training, Ethics Fading, and Ethical Reasoning

   ... recognize a situation's ethical aspects, how can we apply ethics laws, not to mention go beyond ethics laws to consider the appearance of impropriety, the possible loss of ...

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

8. Ethics Commission E-Newsletters

   Body:  Government ethics e-newsletters are a good source of ideas, and something worth considering for your local government's ethics commission or ethics officer. Atlanta's new spring 2010 newsletter , Ethics Matters , ...

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

9. COGEL Talk on Legislative Immunity: Same Goals As Government Ethics, and Not Absolute

   ... is the text of a talk I gave at the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws conference this week. Due to time limitations, I was not able to ... assumed that if their legislative bodies had passed ethics codes and created ethics commissions, those codes applied to them and ...

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

10. The Willful Standard in Nevada's Ethics Enforcement

    Body:  Standard of proof is a big issue in ethics enforcement, as it is in any enforcement. A year and a half ago, I wrote ... a blog post on the mishmash of standards of proof in local ethics codes and in the codes of states that have jurisdiction over local ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment

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