January 29, 2014

Good News from Florida Legislative Leaders

After ripping apart one Florida ethics "reform" bill, it's nice to be able to say that Florida's legislative leaders are planning to do some good things this year. According to an Integrity Florida press release today, the senate and house leaders have committed themselves to do the following: Stre…
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January 24, 2014

Happy Birthday, Citizens United!

Posted on January 24th, 2014 on the Harvard Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics Blog: http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/lab/blog/394-happy-birthday-citizens-united January 21, 2010 was a watershed day in U.S. political history—it was the day the Supreme Court decided Citizens United. For four years we ha…
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Enforcement & Complaints January 24, 2014

Rooting for the Refuseniks

A passing statement in yesterday's New York Times article on the continuously unfolding story of NJ governor Chris Christie's bullying led me to wonder why it is that indictments based on sting operations focus only on the government officials who give in to the sting's temptations. Not only is thi…
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Conflicts of Interest January 23, 2014

A Miscellany

Incompatible Political Offices According to an article this week on the TribLive website, an ethics complaint was filed against an Allegheny County, PA council member for working as a constituent services representative for a state senator whose district partially overlaps the council member's. The…
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Ethics Codes & Reform January 22, 2014

The Effects of Ethics Reform in Louisiana

One of the biggest problems in government ethics is determining whether ethics reforms "work." A well written article in the Advocate looked at Louisiana's ethics enforcement since the reforms instituted by Gov. Jindal became applicable in 2009. Louisiana's ethics program has jurisdiction over loca…
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