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  1. Georgia Attempts to Require Local Ethics Enforcement

    Body:  Last month, the Georgia Senate unanimously passed a bill requiring every local governing ... and opposed by the Association of County Commissioners of Georgia . The Georgia Municipal Association is neutral on it. Robert ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2010-10-22 18:18 - 0 comments

  2. Independent Non-Sitting Ethics Panels in Georgia

    ... of those over whom they have jurisdiction. Milton, Georgia and, now, Forsyth County, Georgia have come up with an interesting approach to ethics commission ...

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

  3. Ethics Watchdogs, Motives, and Georgia's Ethics Program Problem

    ... laziness. He has been an ethics and non-ethics watchdog in Georgia for many years, filing numerous ethics and other sorts of complaints ... to an article yesterday on the Loganville-Grayson Patch , Georgia governor Nathan Deal filed an action seeking attorney fees from George ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 3 comments

  4. Georgia's Aspirational Guidelines

    ... highly unusual, but not unprecedented. One precedent is the Georgia Municipal Association's City of Ethics program, developed in 1999. The Georgia program requires municipalities to do two things in order to qualify. ...

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

  5. More Bad Consequences of Gubernatorial Selection of EC Members in Georgia

    ... was suspected. The new evidence suggests that aides to Georgia's governor contacted a prospective ethics commission executive ... state EC members selected by the Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court and the Chief Judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals. That's not the best choice (judges can be seen as ...

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

  6. The Potential Conflicts of Georgia's Community Improvement Districts

    cid.jpg Body:  In Georgia, Community Improvement Districts (CIDs) are a creation of state ...

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

  7. Conflicts, Suits, and Questions Galore in Georgia

    ... the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , a board member of a Georgia-based insurance company set up ten PACs in Alabama that together gave ... — ten times the legal limit — to a candidate for Georgia insurance commissioner. A complaint was filed with the state ethics ...

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

  8. Executive Orders on Ethics Are Good, Enforcement Is Better

    ... week's Atlanta Journal-Constitution , a rule prohibiting Georgia state employees from accepting gifts over $25 is not being enforced. At ... the gift ban (or the executive order) on the site of the Georgia Ethics Commission , and it doesn't appear that it has jurisdiction ...

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

  9. The EC Selection Process and Recusal

    ... process, until things get ugly. Things got ugly in Georgia this week. According to an article in yesterday's Atlanta Journal-Constitution , the Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission (EC; formerly ...

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

  10. Gwinnett County Ethics Reform II - Recommendations by the Vinson Institute and the Grand Jury

    ... of three blog posts on ethics reform in Gwinnett County, Georgia, I will look at recommendations for ethics reform made by a grand jury ... Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia in its 2007 report commissioned by the board of county ...

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

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