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  1. A Very Short Rant on Financial Disclosure and Ethics Self-Regulation

    ... a businessperson or professional who knows how to keep files and how to work with an accountant. If they can't even be honest about ...

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

  2. Council Ethics Committees

    ... the city's ethics program, perhaps after the ethics board files its annual report. It could hold an annual training session. It could award employees who ...

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

  3. A Miscellany

    ... an argument why it can release a preliminary investigation report to the legislature. Not to the public, mind you, but the ... only prosecutors have a right to see an investigation report. But even this is too much for the governor, who is now arguing that the ... content rules for comments on council members' sites or blogs, and letting the public know that what they write is open ...

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

  4. The Effect of the Wisconsin Supreme Court Open Meetings Decision on Local Government Ethics

    ... unanimous. The one council member who opposed the contract files a complaint with the city's ethics commission, and the council president ... remove the council (and other councils) from the EC's jurisdiction and make them self-regulating with respect to ethics? If ...

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

  5. A Controversial Indianapolis Board Appointment: Perception and the Dilemma Between Competence and Conflicts of Interest

    ... the Pacers. • Bar Grand's access to the firm's files on the Pacers. • Bar access by firm attorneys to any materials ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2008-02-04 11:06 - 0 comments

  6. Ethics Pledges -- Make Them Stick

    ... call that place hell. But the correct name, of course, is Utah, home of some of the most lax campaign finance laws and weakest ethics ... chugging along. What can be done in a state such as Utah, or a city without an ethics program? You can't wait for legislators to ...

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

  7. Local Government Ethics Programs in a Nutshell

    ... judiciary have formal judicial disciplinary processes. One files a formal complaint with a judicial commission. That's the only advice I ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2015-04-20 12:05 - 3 comments

  8. Full Text of Model Ethics Code

    ... determination (see 216 ). If the Ethics Commission files a determination in the matter after the 109 suit has been filed, the ... some states (and at least one city) make settlement the default or preferred approach. Arkansas’ code requires a written Offer of ...

    donmc - 2015-08-18 14:41 - 0 comments

  9. Chinese Walls or Chinese Screens?

    ... focus on the November 2009 Office of Congressional Ethics report on Rep. Norman Dicks , who sat on the House Appropriations Defense ... a congressional representative does not need to look at FEC files to find out which firms have given him what amounts of contributions? All ...

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

  10. Some Excellent Lobbying Reforms in NYC

    ... on it (reading the transcripts is instructive), and report on ways in which it could be improved . It's worth noting that the task ... into the lobbying program by requiring, "before a lobbyist files a statement of registration [that] the lobbyist and its client shall ...

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

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