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1. The Art of Making People Skittish

   ... a local government ethics officer's picture is on the cover of a magazine. The ethics officer is City Ethics' own Carla Miller, and the magazine is Northeast Florida's Folio Weekly . And there's even an incredible article ...

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

2. Regional Ethics Commissions via Interlocal Cooperation Agreements

   ... that this relationship takes this particular form is that Florida is one of many states that have an Interlocal Cooperation Act ... cooperation agreements (see p. 24 of a 2000 auditor's report on ethics programs in Kentucky ). These were created pursuant to a ...

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

3. Post-Employment Government Contracts

   ... Agency (CRA) matter looked at it from the point of view of the timing of withdrawal from participation. This post will look at ... at this matter in the context of multiple CRA problems in Florida. The West Palm Beach matter raises the question whether or not the ...

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

4. Ethics training research example: Sioux Falls, SD

   ... research is being done in connection with the Ethics Center of the University of North Florida. Cities across the U.S. are being studied as to their ethics program ...

   cmiller - 2010-05-29 13:17 - 1 comment

5. An Occasion for Compassion and Respect

   ... this week from Largo (not Key Largo, but a West Coast town), Florida has a little bit of everything in it. I don't think any ethics code would deal with what ...

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

6. Can a Postage Stamp Be a Bribe?

   ... talk about gifts to politicians, we often talk about gifts of nominal value being okay. Buy a politician a coffee, what’s wrong with ... article in yesterday’s Orlando Sentinel , Republican Florida legislative candidate Sean Campbell (there's a special election) sent ...

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

7. The Fine Art of Fining

   ... have been two newspaper articles featuring opposite ends of the fine spectrum. Few Fines in California An L.A. Times ... commissions in the state, as there increasingly are in Florida, as well). Although the number of findings of a violation doubled ...

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

8. Crowdfunding a Local Government Ethics Program

   Body:  Crowdfunding is a 21st-century way of funding projects that are not being funded by the government, the stock ... Diego, in Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, and Broward counties in Florida, and in Rhode Island). Voters supported these referendums, often by ...

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

9. Thumbs Up and Down Today

   Body:  Thumbs up for the Virginia House of Delegates General Laws Committee. According to an editorial in today's ... having a conflict of interest, counsel suggested asking the Florida Ethics Commission. The tourist authority chair responded by saying he ...

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

10. Tallahassee, FL Passes Ethics Reform Referendum

    ... citizen groups from right to left. I worked on the drafting of the referendum language. Here is today's press release from Represent.US: On Nov. 4th, 2014, voters in Tallahassee, Florida, made history by approving the first city Anti-Corruption Act in the ...

    cmiller - 2015-04-27 10:14 - 0 comments

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