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19 Jan 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
California – DWP Board President Is Out Amid Ethics Questions, Power Struggle at Utility MSN – Dakota Smith (Los Angeles Times) | Published: 1/9/2024 Cynthia McClain-Hill will step down as president of the Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commission following ethics-related complaints involving her and growing tensions over the utility’s leadership. [read post]
12 Jan 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
California – DWP Board Members Held Private Contract Talks with Vendor, Prompting Ethics Questions Yahoo News – Dakota Smith and Richard Winton (Los Angeles Times) | Published: 1/5/2024 Two members of the Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commission privately discussed a contract with executives of a cybersecurity company, an exchange that is raising concerns from ethics experts. [read post]
5 Jan 2024, 7:21 am by Daniel M. Kowalski
Links to CILA’s 2023 Written Resources Working with Youth Practical and Ethical Considerations and Reminders when Working with Translators and Interpreters (Apr. 2023) Have you Heard of DHS’s OIDO? [read post]
28 Dec 2023, 8:24 am by Dave Maass
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15 Dec 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Arizona – Phoenix Approves Ethics Commission After 6 Years and on the Fourth Attempt MSN – Sam Kmack (Arizona Republic) | Published: 12/13/2023 The Phoenix City Council approved the creation of ethics commission after spending six years trying and failing to convene the group, which will now independently investigate complaints of ethical violations against elected officials and other city leaders. [read post]
14 Dec 2023, 9:05 pm by William McDonald
The Federal Trade Commission issued a new rule targeting two illegal practices that car sellers employ: bait-and-switch tactics and hidden junk fees. [read post]
8 Dec 2023, 11:15 am by Unknown
-Mexico Border (Univ. of Texas at Austin, Nov. 2023) [text]New census projections show immigration is essential to the growth and vitality of a more diverse US population (Brookings Institution, Nov. 2023) [text]Opportunities for Welcome: Lessons Learned for Supporting People Seeking Asylum in Chicago, Denver, New York City, and Portland, Maine (Women's Refugee Commission, Nov. 2023) [text]An Unprecedented Migration Crisis: Characterizing and Analyzing its Depth (The Dialogue,… [read post]
8 Dec 2023, 10:02 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health plans and other entities covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) should tighten their phishing deterrence and other safeguards in response to the announcement of the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) of its settlement of its first official phishing-related HIPAA charges with a Louisiana medical group subject to HIPAA as a health care provider. [read post]
7 Dec 2023, 1:30 am by Sherica Celine
In the United States, the principle of data minimization is embedded firmly within the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act, through FTC enforcement activities, and in the host of state-level privacy laws and rules that have proliferated in recent years. [read post]
7 Dec 2023, 1:30 am by Sherica Celine
The Ethics of E-Discovery (ABA) (Lexis+ / Lexis) Examines the ethical issues associated with e-discovery and provides guidance on how to deal with the new and challenging intersection of electronic discovery and ethics. [read post]
25 Oct 2023, 7:17 pm by Michael Lowe
Three Examples of Texas Criminal Indictments of Corporations Here are three examples of varied criminal charges brought against corporations here in Texas: 1. [read post]
20 Oct 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Alaska – Alaska Attorney General Approves Free Legal Defense for Top Officials Accused of Ethical Lapses Frontiersman – James Brooks (Alaska Beacon) | Published: 10/17/2023 The state of Alaska will provide legal representation for its governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general in ethics complaints filed against those top officials. [read post]
16 Oct 2023, 9:02 am by Jose Medina
According to his July 17 report to the Texas Ethics Commission, Paxton received $1.7 million from just six individuals who each gave at least $100,000 after the House impeached him. [read post]
6 Oct 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Supreme Court to Decide Landmark Texas, Florida Social Media Cases and More MSN – Ann Marimow and Cat Zakrzewski (Washington Post) | Published: 9/29/2023 The Supreme Court said it would wade into the future of free speech online and decide whether laws passed in Texas and Florida can restrict social media companies from removing certain political posts or accounts. [read post]
22 Sep 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Democrats on the committee want changes to the makeup of the commission. [read post]
15 Sep 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The report from the staff for the Alaska Public Offices Commission recommends penalties of $22,500 for Art Mathias, a leader of the repeal effort, and approximately $20,000 for the church-affiliated Ranked Choice Education Association among its findings. [read post]
11 Sep 2023, 7:55 am by Ben Sperry
My co-panelist Clare Morell of the Ethics and Public Policy Center put together an excellent tweet thread summarizing some of her thoughts, including on the anonymous-speech angle. [read post]