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Louisiana should strive for a campaign finance reporting and enforcement system that promotes compliance, sets a high ethical standard and provides clear procedures that are practical, consistent and transparent. These principles should be at the core of the current policy discussion about how political candidates and elected officials should be able to spend their campaign […]
Dear Senator LaFleur: The Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana has a strong interest in promoting fair and effective ethics laws, as I know you do as well. I appreciate your openness to suggestions on this issue, and particularly this session with regard to your Senate Bill 148.
The Louisiana Board of Ethics voted Friday to oppose House Bill 1034, a piece of legislation that would exempt several professional classes from an important though somewhat vague area of the Code of Ethics.
Louisiana should have strong and effective laws to ensure high standards for ethics and campaign finance disclosures. The system should foster compliance by helping prevent infractions and promote clarity and confidence in the laws and their enforcement.
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The primary goals of ethics oversight are to establish ethical standards for public servants and promote public confidence in government. Strength of oversight can be reduced to two elements–what is required from those who serve the public and to what extent can the requirements be enforced?
As part of the governor’s ethics reform package in 2008, substantial changes were made to the process of prosecuting and judging those who violate the state’s ethics code. One unsettling change was the transfer of adjudicatory power from the Board of Ethics to civil service administrative law judges. The ethics board detailed its concerns about […]
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