Working Paper 42 - Community Development Authorities
Submitted on behalf of the Author: Mary M. Báthory Vidaver
Safra Working Papers
Resources & Learning
April 29, 2009
www.transparency.org Video
Enforcement & Complaints
September 8, 2014
Yet Another Problem with the Criminal Enforcement of Government Ethics
In a
an op-ed in the Daily Kos last Friday, Janos Marton — special counsel to New York state's recent Moreland
Commission on state-level corruption — makes an excellent point about one of the problems involved in the criminal enforcement of government ethics :
The Executive Order under which the Commission operated directed us to investigate corrupt activity that was permissible under the New York's weak campa
August 6, 2010
Yet Another Underhanded Attempt to Water Down the Broward County Ethics Commission's New Ethics Code
Update: August 9, 2010 (see below)
You've got to hand it to them: Broward County (FL) commissioners don't give up. Some of them have fought and fought against the prospect of having a new ethics code, written by the county ethics commission. August 10 is the deadline by which they must either approve the new ethics code, or it will appear on the November ballot.
You've got to hand it to them: Broward County (FL) commissioners don't give up. Some of them have fought and fought against the prospect of having a new ethics code, written by the county ethics commission. August 10 is the deadline by which they must either approve the new ethics code, or it will appear on the November ballot.
January 11, 2010
Yorba Linda's Proposed Ethics Ordinance Falls Short
It's not an unfamiliar story. Council candidates promise ethics
reform. They are elected, and actually fulfill their promises with
a proposed ethics ordinance. But there's not really much to the
proposed ethics ordinance, and there's no enforcement mechanism.
Resources & Learning
February 12, 2011
Zygmunt Bauman on Responsibility, Trust, Self-Deception, and More
Despite the title of his essay "What Chance of Ethics in the Globalized
World of Consumers?" Zygmunt Bauman
has some valuable things to say that are relevant to government ethics
(the essay appears in his 2009 book, Does
Ethics
Have a Chance in a World of Consumers? (Harvard University
Press)).
The Purpose of Government Ethics
The Purpose of Government Ethics
Transparency & Disclosure
March 23, 2008
[CityEthics] A Citizen Transparency Initiative
Published on CityEthics.org (http://www.cityethics.org)
A Cure for Transparency Problems: A Model Website and Blog
By Robert Wechsler
Created 2008-03-24 10:38
An essential problem in many local governments is a lack of transparency. When people do not know what is happening, and access to information is very difficult, democracy is undermined in several ways. Reformers have a difficult time showing what is actually happening or preparing for public meetings and public hearings. Newspapers are dependent on what officials say.