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Conflicts of Interest April 13, 2006

Prohibited Communications during Contracting

I saw on the web that Miami-Dade has a "cone of silence" rule (love the name), which prohibits contact with government personnel including elected officials while contract solicitation responses are under evaluation. I would like to hear from or about any other cities that have communication restri…

Ethics Codes & Reform February 27, 2006

Government Imposing Ethics Code on Contractor

Has any one had any experience where the government unit has oursourced what would normally be considered a government activity and then imposed the government's ethics policy on the contractor?

November 24, 2005

Character Counts !

Character Counts ! - National Office Josephson Institute of Ethics 9841 Airport Blvd., Suite 300 Los Angeles, CA 90045 Tel: (310) 846-4800 Fax: (310) 846-4858

July 28, 2005

FORUMs in Community building

The use of a self-registration based community website is a relatively new thing for the webmasters of the world. For example, in the past, using static html pages, a typical "labor of love" webmaster was forced to create all of his/her content on a continuous basis, costing a great deal of time an…

June 6, 2005

New Survey on Government Ethics

Please respond to our latest survey on Government Ethics ! You can respond by clicking on the URL: CLICK HERE Or you can go to http://www.cityethics.org/govt-ethics-survey to respond. Thank you for your interest !

Conflicts of Interest May 2, 2005

Ethical Dilemma

This story was published on April 6th, 2005 in the Philadelphia Weekly www.philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=9285 With City Hall in the throes of an FBI probe and Philadelphia's reputation in the dumps, will support for ethics reforms get trashed too? by Gwen Shaffer The first time Richardson Dilw…

May 2, 2005

An ethical approach to business

City would link incentives, behavior By Steve Patterson Times-Union staff writer - published in 2000 in the Jacksonville Times Union Racism charges at the Adam's Mark hotel chain are helping fuel an ethical debate at Jacksonville City Hall. Citing the massive downtown hotel project as an example, m…

Local Government Practice May 2, 2005

Miami/Dade Best Practices

Community Outreach: Public schools Model Student Ethics Commission Program (MSECP) The program is designed to teach and to engage students in the policies and issues concerning ethics, good governance and accountability in the administration of government. Students will review case studies regardin…

Conflicts of Interest March 10, 2005

Conflicts of Interest

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