Sentences with phrase «independent joint commission»

The dramatic reform package — called the «Clean Up Albany Act of 2011» — creates an independent Joint Commission on Public Ethics with «robust enforcement powers» to investigate both the executive and legislative branches of government.

Not exact matches

Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein on Thursday called for an investigation by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics into the allegation of sexual misconduct made against him by a former legislative aide.

State officials are looking into whether the attorney was unfairly demoted, while the DCJS and inspector general's findings have been referred to the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics for an independent review, according to the Cuomo administration.

Last week, state Sen. Jeff Klein (D - Bronx), leader of the Independent Democratic Conference that shares power with Republicans in the State Senate, confirmed that the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics is investigating a sexual harassment claim against him.

The current ethics panel known as the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, created in 2011, would be replaced by the Independent State Commission on Public Ethics.

Among his recommendations, Astorino favors switching elected officials from the defined - benefit pension plan to a defined - contribution plan; replacing the per diem system for lawmaker expenses to one requiring stricter bookkeeping; and scrapping the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics in favor of a new independent ethics watchdog appointed by the judiciary.

«Your immediate attention and assistance with this investigation is requested and I am prepared to fully cooperate with your inquiry in an effort to resolve this allegation made against me,» Klein wrote in a letter to the Joint Commission on Public Ethics amid mounting calls for an independent investigation.

Seyfer Lillis is an advocate of both a joint master plan and a joint municipal center, and favors including more residents in local government, such as returning the Police Commission to a body of appointees who are otherwise independent from the Town Board.

The joint Assembly - Senate commission on redistricting met for the first time on Wednesday, with Sen. Michael Nozzolio, R - Fayette, Seneca County, saying there wasn't enough time to set up an independent panel, given the time constraints.

The group also called for a restructuring of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics to increase independence, and for greater disclosure of independent expenditures.

16 July 2003: Responding to the report by the joint committee on Lords reform, the government says that there is no consensus in parliament for introducing any elected element into the second chamber, only for removing the remaining 92 hereditary peers and establishing a new independent appointments commission.

The impression that Albany's ethics watchdogs are not actually independent has been festering for years as Cuomo has seen to it that three of his former longtime employees have headed the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE).

«The Joint Commission on Public Ethics is an independent monitor that will aggressively investigate corruption and help maintain integrity in state government,» Governor Cuomo said.

«The Joint Commission on Public Ethics is an independent monitor that will aggressively investigate corruption and help maintain integrity in state government,» Cuomo said.

But it was DiFiore who for 16 months headed the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics — Cuomo's «independent monitor» of legislative corruption that turned out to be anything but.

«The Joint Commission on Public Ethics is an independent monitor that will aggressively investigate corruption and help maintain integrity in state government,» the governor said.

TORONTO — Today, a coalition of community and advocacy groups, as well as the Ontario Human Rights Commission, issued a joint statement calling on the Government of Ontario and police oversight bodies to immediately implement recommendations of the Honourable Justice Michael Tulloch from his Report of the Independent Police Oversight Review.

The joint liquidators had questioned the judge's apparent suggestion that if the purpose of commissioning a report was to conduct an exercise which the joint liquidators were bound to carry out in any event, irrespective of whether litigation was pending or in contemplation, then such a purpose would necessarily be independent of the possible need to take recovery proceedings in that liquidation.