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1. The Government Attorney-Client Privilege in a Local Government Investigatory Context

   ... investigation of misconduct in city government, "sacred," as Chicago's corporation counsel insists? Is it even appropriate? This is a ... officials in Illinois. Background: The IG's Report This is Chicago, where the Shakman Decree, seeking to control ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment

2. The Educational Opportunities of a Local Ethics Case in Massachusetts

   ... But it is not a distinction that I think should be part of an ethics code. In addition, enforceable ethics provisions should not ... conclude that the chair might favor her cousin. The chair files a written disclosure with her appointing authority explaining her ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

3. Officials Accepting Tickets to Events Where They Have a Ceremonial Function

   ... there, which makes it much easier to get permission. Chicago's exception takes a different approach, considering ... suites, with meals and even a limousine to the ballpark. §2-156-040(d)(4). ... reasonable hosting, including travel and expenses, ... stay beyond the ceremonial function, they should have to report it.” This policy provides a reasonable boundary:  going free and ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

4. A Miscellany

   ... nonprofit operates a PAC that has purportedly failed to report more than $100,000 since 2006. The ethics board has jurisdiction over ... Family Members To Work on a Campaign An article in the Chicago Tribune this week points out a problem with allowing members of a ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

5. A Miscellany

   ... "It's trying to kill a dead horse." According to a Chicago Tribune article yesterday , those were the words of the new Cook ...

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6. Ethics Commission E-Newsletters

   ... minds of government officials and employees, an important part of ethics training. They are also a good way for an ethics commission and ... and of states that handle local government ethics. Chicago Miami-Dade County Newcastle County (DE) New York City ...

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7. Circled Wagons: Loyalty and Municipal Ethics

   ... with it, impossible to make it more ethical. Think of Chicago. Its government culture has long been very simple. Its principal ... Chicago is neither oppressed nor few nor poor. By trying to force Chicago into giving up its culture, the courts actually made its culture ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2007-04-09 09:33 - 0 comments

8. Patronage

   ... Comment: As has been shown so skillfully in Chicago, patronage involves both promises of jobs in return for political ... Even the Shakman Decree of 1983 did not put an end to the Chicago patronage system: it just went underground. It was twenty years before ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2007-02-17 08:51 - 0 comments

9. Disappointing Report from Ethics Task Force in Phoenix

   Body:  Phoenix has followed Chicago in taking a task force approach to ethics reform. As in Chicago, the mayor selected the task ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

10. Some Weak Defenses of Conflicts in the News This Week

    ... store or were next to at a Lion's meeting. It's just part and parcel of the job.' To see the entire article, click here . ... Conflicts Are Okay : 'I asked [Langdon] Neal, the Chicago election board chairman, to explain how it was possible he didn't have ...

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