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City staffers get ethics introduction

Thursday, December 6th, 2007
donmc

The Jacksonville Daily Record today published a story covering the first ethics training since the new code revisions were ratified by Council on Tuesday last week.
"Miller instructed the Council staff not to get too bogged down in the technicalities of the law, but to adopt an overall ethical mind set to help guide their decision-making."

Press: Daily Record Article - 6 December 2007

Posted Thu, 2007-12-06 01:00

City staffers get ethics introduction

From: http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=48985

The entire City Council staff met Wednesday to hear an introduction to the City’s new ethics code. The group will meet again today to further discuss specific instances where the code could impact their work.

12/06/2007
by David Ball
Staff Writer

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Jacksonville's Recent Ethics Code Revisions

Monday, December 3rd, 2007
donmc
Jacksonville's Ethics Commission recently went through a two year revision process of their City's Ethics Code. The resulting updates were finally ratified by the City Council last Tuesday night. See the Times Union article below... Note that I will get the code revisions up in a separate blog entry later.

From: http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/113007/opl_221526913.shtml.

Voter ID Laws

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We Need a Support Network

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How Not to Deal with Sunshine and Ethics Matters

Friday, October 5th, 2007
Robert Wechsler

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