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1. How and Why to Bring Budget Transparency to a City Near You

   ... unusual) is dated April 2011. There are only two 2012 budget documents between the annual budgets. Monthly Reports But in May ... to reading monthly reports, budgets, and other financial documents so that the public, especially journalists and bloggers, can ...

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

2. Lessig on the Effects of Elected Officials' Dependency Problem

   ... permit applications, grant applications, all those documents that, for most of us, simply exist. Those documents that get very little press, and whose authorship is not accomplished ...

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

3. The Spitzer Report and the Need for Clearer Boundaries Between Public and Private Work

   ... recommended that in their first response to a request for documents, Mr. Spitzer’s counsel include “a key adjective.” He suggested ... on Public Integrity have immediate access to the documents it requires for its investigation. Government lawyers are expected ...

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

4. A Limit on the Use of the Legislative Immunity Defense

   ... ). According to an article last week in the Legal Intelligencer , the judge, acting as his own attorney, argued that ...

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

5. Problems with an IG Approach to Local Government Ethics

   ... in Palm Beach County, FL and an IG approach in neighboring Broward County provides a small laboratory for seeing which works better. ... waste. Rarely will initiative be taken regarding ethics; a legal rather than ethical approach will be the norm; and when anything is done, ...

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

6. A Circuit Judge in Chicago Gets the Government Attorney-Client Privilege Wrong

   ... privilege to stop him from obtaining crucial documents; the mayor's compliance office does not share key information; and ... discussions about it must not protect the discussions or documents from an IG or ethics board investigation. A government attorney ...

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

7. The Death of a Government Ethics Activist and a March on a City Ethics Commission

   ... the EC. The first, in 2004, disclosed the destruction of documents. In 2008, he disclosed the fact that a database switchover would destroy a large number of documents. And in May 2009, he said that the EC was overcharging an official ...

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

8. A County Attorney At War with the County: The Conflicts Fly in Maricopa County

   ... article, the county attorney's office had provided extensive legal assistance to the county during the preparation of the court building ... is the ethical propriety of the Board's attorney seeking documents as part of a grand jury investigation from the attorney's client. For ...

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

9. A Miscellany

   ... this week, there are a lot of complaints about the new Broward County (FL) zero tolerance gift provision, which effectively says that ... commissioner said she's keeping a "stupid list.'' "On it she documents the invitations and items she's had to refuse, which she thinks are ...

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

10. A Miscellany

    ... than in an ordinance. The Charter's The Answer in Broward County, Too If you really need to be convinced how important it is ... than in an ordinance, take a look at what is going on in Broward County (FL), home of Ft. Lauderdale. A referendum set up a task ...

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

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