Sentences with phrase «ethics oversight»
"Ethics oversight" refers to the process of monitoring and ensuring that individuals or organizations are behaving ethically and following moral principles in their actions and decision-making. Full definition
For the past ten years, our state has been focused on strengthening our system of ethics oversight and enforcement, and increasing the penalties for those convicted of corruption.
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The budget proposal also includes more money to fund sexual harassment investigations in an oft - criticized state ethics oversight panel.
These reforms will restore public confidence in our government through stricter campaign finance rules, increased transparency and meaningful ethics oversight of lawmakers.
Provided regular reports to scientific ethics committee, participated in two ethics oversight cases at the research facility.
It is hard to recall now the days when legislators could act without any meaningful ethics oversight.
Nancy Pelosi publicly said: «Republicans claim they want to «drain the swamp,» but the night before the new Congress gets sworn in, the House GOP has eliminated the only independent ethics oversight of their actions.
On the same day that Silver's trial began, the New York Ethics Review Commission released an evaluation the current ethics oversight system and recommended reforms to improve the functioning of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) and the Legislative Ethics Commission (LEC).
Outside David Grandeau, a former state ethics oversight official, and now a blogger, said he thinks the closed door session was a «not a good way to start» the commission, calling the public portion of the meeting a «dog and pony show».
This past year I am proud to say I worked with the new speaker, Carl Heastie, on measures to increase reporting of outside income for lawmakers and improve ethics oversight.
Most importantly, this includes: overhauling legislative ethics oversight; full disclosure of outside business clients for all lawmakers; stricter oversight of lobbyists; and, comprehensive changes to the campaign finance system including the closing of the LLC loophole, lower contributions limits, strict controls over «personal use» of campaign contributions, and creation of a voluntary system of public financing of elections.
Horner says the governor and legislative leaders need to go «back to the drawing board» and create better state based ethics oversight.
Citizens Union calls the charges against Speaker Silver a «sad continuation of the persistent corruption in Albany,» and called for better ethics oversight, and tougher penalties for public corruption.
«Regardless how today's United States Supreme Court decision on the so - called «honest services» law is interpreted in Senator Bruno's case and going forward, the Legislature and the Governor must act this legislative session to toughen ethics oversight.
«To be an independent ethics oversight body.»
«Reform ethics oversight and enforcement» by making changes to JCOPE's structure, scope, and voting procedures to increase transparency and independence.
Update, 5:17 p.m. The director of the state's top ethics oversight panel violated state law by leaking details about an investigation into former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's administration to one of Mr. Spitzer's aides, according to a blistering report released on Wednesday by State Inspector General Joseph Fisch.
The proposal nearly passed by the Senate would return ethics oversight to a separate board to investigate government officials and another to regulate lobbying.
And on Friday, Normile reported that Japanese researchers will soon be subject to new ethics oversight.
The people in charge of lawyer ethics oversight in your state see social media either as just another form of communication, or as a special threat to client confidences and attorney decorum.
«If you've been hired because of your connection to a powerful person, you don't have to be working directly for that person to receive special treatment,» said Richard Briffault, a professor of legislation at Columbia Law School who chairs New York City's Conflicts of Interest Board, the city's independent ethics oversight panel.
In 2011, Governor Cuomo did hammer out a deal with state lawmakers to establish what he hoped would be a new system of ethics oversight.
Horner said he'd like to see a proposal to create more independent ethics oversight that is not controlled by the governor or the Legislature.
One clear take away is that the state's ethics oversight and openness laws were simply insufficient to curb such behaviors — a total overhaul is needed.
The Bruno case illuminated practices that should be prohibited and underscored the failures of the state's ethics oversight system.
New York needs tough, independent ethics oversight.
Horner says he'd like to see a proposal to create more independent ethics oversight that is not controlled by the governor or the legislature.
Tabone said he believed the state was in disarray due to «one - party rule in Albany» and Braunstein called for «independent ethics oversight» in the Legislature.
New York does, at least, have some ethics oversight: several states have no ethics commissions, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
The governor must act by overhauling the state's ethics oversight this session.
«We want to ramp up the capability and the independence of ethics oversight,» Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause NY said at Wednesday's press conference.
And when it comes to ethics oversight, it's pretty clear after five inept years that the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) is no better than its predecessors.