Baltimore Mayor Resigns
Baltimore's mayor resigned on Wednesday, fortunately after being
convicted of the crime of embezzlement (albeit for $500 in gift cards)
rather than the ethics violation (not yet tried) of failing to include
gifts on her financial disclosure statement (see Baltimore
Sun article).
Tallahassee takes a compliance approach to ethics. Its ethics code is
aspirational, based on core values. Its ethics training employs a
Character First approach. Conflicts of interest are only a small
portion of a program that ranges from personnel and transparency issues
to harassment, discrimination, and fraud.
This is not the sort of ethics program usually discussed in this blog,
because it is not what is...
In a
recent
blog post, I listed the suits filed by Maricopa County's
sheriff Joe Arpaio and county attorney Andrew Thomas against other
county officials during the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws conference
right in the heart of Maricopa County.
Well, it got worse. On the last day of the conference, according to...