This is the place to comment on, discuss, and share alternative content and language relating to the declarations of policy that can usually be found at the beginnning of municipal ethics codes. Most declarations are very short and often ignored, since they cannot be enforced. But they are importan…

Below is Robert Wechsler's introduction to the Model Municipal Ethics Code. This is the place to comment on issues raised and positions taken in this introdcution. Introduction Since most cities already have an ethics code, why is there a need for a model code? Because, as Mark Davies has so effect…

City Ethics' Model Code Project assumes that an ethics code is central to municipal ethics programs. But this raises several issues. How important is an ethics code to an ethics program? Can an effective ethical environment be created without any sort of written ethics code? If an ethics code is ne…