City Related | City Ethics

June 24, 2006

LOS ANGELES

Los Angeles City Ethics Commission The Los Angeles City Ethics Commission is a semi-independent agency authorized and funded by Los Angeles voters to administer and enforce a governmental ethics ordinance for the City of Los Angeles. The CEC is also responsible for administering and enforcing the C…

Conflicts of Interest June 9, 2006

When an Emotional Wrench Is Thrown into an Ethical Issue, What Do You Do?

I would like to hear how many people have had similar experiences to the one I will describe below, and what people think should be done in response. It concerns conflicts of interest, and the way a discussion of them within the context of a particular possible instance can so easily be turned into…

Local Government Practice May 31, 2006

Supreme Court Blow to Municipal Employee Dissent

Yesterday, the Supreme Court delivered a blow to municipal government employee rights in its decision in Garcetti et al v. Ceballos. Essentially, Justice Kennedy, for the majority of five, decided to limit the 1968 Pickering balancing test (between the interests of the employee as citizen in commen…

Local Government Practice May 30, 2006

Understanding Ethical Failures in Leadership

Terry L. Price's new book, Understanding Ethical Failures in Leadership (Cambridge University Press, 2006), provoked in me a great deal of thinking about what is behind the ethical failures of elected and appointed municipal officials. I will be talking in terms of officials, but Price speaks only …

May 19, 2006

Ethics code controversial in Providence, RI

Creating ethics code takes time, expert says Carla Miller, an ethics officer for Jacksonville, Fla., and a former federal prosecutor, tells city officials, "You are in the upper echelon because you are at least struggling with it." 01:00 AM EDT on Friday, May 19, 2006 BY CATHLEEN F. CROWLEYJournal …

May 14, 2006

MIAMI/DADE COUNTY

Population: 2.2 million Web site: www.co.miami-dade.fl.us/ethics About the Miami-Dade Ethics Commission Jurisdiction extends over 35,000 county and municipal officials and employees Nine full-time employees by the end of 2000 The Ethics Commission is composed of five members and each serves stagger…

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