Recusal

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• How a Board Should Handle a Members Contract Conflict

  
  CityEthics.org — Authority: 130
  An interesting disagreement has arisen over what is required for a contract with a council member to constitute a conflict ofinterest in California. According to anarticle in the Valley Chronicle , the city of Hemet and the Leagueof California Cities disagree with a grand jury about whether a particular ...
  3 days ago

• Public Confidence is Priceless

  
  judgesonmerit.org — Authority: 127
  The Harrisburg Patriot-News featured an op-ed by PMC’s Lynn Marks and Shira Goodman this weekend. The op-ed opens with a question about the money spent in the election — millions by the candidates and perhaps millions more by political parties and other third-party special interests: Only 20 percent of ...
  4 days ago

• Government Ethics Is Not About Character, But About Making Decisions in a Professional Manner

  
  CityEthics.org — Authority: 130
  One thing Ive failed to do in this blog is sufficiently emphasize thatmakingethical decisions in government is not primarily about being a good,ethical person, as most people seem to think. Essentially, it is thesame as making otherdecisions. As I recently wrote , "with effective training, in anethical environment, ...
  1 week ago

• Anti-Ethical Electioneering

  
  CityEthics.org — Authority: 130
  Its Election Day 2009, so what better topic than a particularly slimyinstance of negative campaigning that attacks a candidate for seekingan advisory opinion from the local ethics board, and actually followingit. According to anarticle on kcrg.com this Sunday, a candidates flier said that hisincumbent Cedar Rapids ...
  1 week ago

• Local Government Employees on Local Government Pension Boards - An Important Court Case in California

  
  CityEthics.org — Authority: 130
  Its been over three years since I wrote about theconflict situation of San Diegos pension board. Its members wereselected by the city government labor unions and by the city, and theyworked for the city. When an increase in their retirement benefits wasexplicitly tied to their approval of a reduction in ...
  1 week ago

• How (Not) To Recuse A Judge

  
  South Florida Lawyers — Authority: 432
  So I see that Congress is taking at look at revising the federal recusal guidelines: The House Judiciary Committee, led by Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., is planning a hearing on federal recusal guidelines amid controversies that have swept through state court systems in recent years, culminating in a U.S. Supreme ...
  1 week ago

• Two Case Studies

  
  CityEthics.org — Authority: 130
  Here are two interesting local government ethics case studies frommatters in the news this week. A Job Can Be a Gift According to anarticle in the Spokesman-Review ,a Spokane council member requested an advisory opinion from the citysethics committee after hissuccessful push to change city regulations to allow ...
  2 weeks ago

• Irresponsible Handling of a Possible Conflict by Four Local Government Officials

  
  CityEthics.org — Authority: 130
  One problem in government ethics is that when conflict situations aredealt with responsibly, there is rarely a record of them. They passquietly, failing to end up in the newspaper, at an ethics commission,or in court. So generally were stuck learning from the times whenconflict situations are dealt with irresponsibly. ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Miscellany

  
  CityEthics.org — Authority: 130
  When Is a Confidentiality Waiver Not a Confidentiality Waiver? It is common for ethics codes to allow respondents in ethicsproceedings to waive confidentiality and make the proceeding public.This is what South Carolina governor Mark Sanford did, according to anarticle in The State back in August. "Sanford said ...
  5 weeks ago

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