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  1. Confidentiality vs. Transparency in Colorado -- A Court Decision

    ... FOI Commission decisions: http://www.state.ct.us/foi/2001fd/20011010/FIC2001-056.htm http://www.state.ct.us/foi/2004FD/20041027/FIC2003-449.htm ... them confidential. According to an article in the Colorado Independent , this week a decision in the case Center for ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 2 comments

  2. How to Make Colorado's Ethics Program More Functional

    Body:  Colorado has an extremely dysfunctional ethics program, everyone is complaining ... a constitution ). According to a guest column in the Colorado Springs Gazette this week , the latest "fix" is a bill that ... that protects citizens from government misconduct. The Colorado bill would instead protect government officials accused of misconduct ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 2 comments

  3. An Arrogant Response to an Ethics Report

    ... doing the publicizing. This is what happened this week in Colorado. Colorado Ethics Watch published an Ethics Roundup this week, giving ...

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

  4. Public Servants Should Not Take Action Against Those Who File Non-Frivolous Ethics Complaints Against Them

    ... filed an ethics complaint against him (in his capacity as Colorado's secretary of state), you know he is more interested in getting even ... filed a complaint with the state Supreme Court, accusing a Colorado Ethics Watch attorney of wrongly claiming that the state ethics ...

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

  5. The Conflicts of Colorado's Public Trustees

    Body:  Luis Toro, director of Colorado Watch, wrote an interesting Huffington Post post yesterday about ethics issues relating to Colorado's public trustee system. Public trustees (one per county) oversee ...

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

  6. An Ethics Complaint to Bring Some Transparency to a Deal

    ... on August 11, 2009) There's an interesting situation in Colorado Springs. According to an article in yesterday's Colorado Springs ... a developer involved in a big deal between the city and the U.S. Olympic Committee for a new USOC headquarters. The mayor appears to have ...

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

  7. DENVER, CO

    ... in 1861 . The city was named the state capital of Colorado upon its entering the Union in 1876 , as state leaders saw ... Board of Ethics 201 West Colfax Avenue, Dept. 703 (for US mail) Denver, CO 80202 Requests for advisory opinions; citizen ...

    donmc - 2006-08-22 20:46

  8. The Effects of an Inadequate Ethics Code

    ... inadequate local government ethics code, as can be seen in Colorado Springs, which passed an ethics code in 2007. Last week, I wrote a ... problems have arisen, according to an article in the Colorado Statesman . The first problem is that the code ...

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

  9. When an EC Is Dependent

    Body:  The Colorado ethics commission matter that I discussed in my last blog post ... that counsel. According to a January article in the Colorado Independent , Colorado's Attorney General issued an opinion on January 8 supporting the ...

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

  10. Total Gift Bans and Legal Defense Funds

    Body:  A February draft advisory opinion from the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission (attached; see below) raises ... always mean the best or most responsible. In the Colorado situation, the secretary of state is forced to argue that ... draft opinion), "it is doubtful that the people of Colorado, in adopting Article XXIX [of the state constitution], intended ...

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

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