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Norwalk City Board of Ethics to finish five short ethics-code videos; staff warns about FOIA limits on member collaboration
Summary
At its Feb. 27 meeting the Norwalk City Board of Ethics approved prior minutes, agreed to finish five remaining short videos summarizing sections of the city’s code of ethics for posting on the city website, and discussed promotion, whether viewing should be mandatory, tracking completion, and FOIA limits on member communications.
NORWALK, Feb. 27, 2025 — The Norwalk City Board of Ethics voted to approve its prior meeting minutes and moved to complete and post the remaining short videos summarizing sections of the city code of ethics so employees, officers and residents can access them online.
The board’s short-term goal is to finish five outstanding slide-based videos summarizing specific code sections, then provide the files to the mayor’s office, which will review and coordinate uploading to the city website and the Board of Ethics web page, board members said.
The videos are intended to be brief (about one to two minutes each) and to explain the code’s plain-language meaning and give simple hypotheticals, board members said. “We have 5 sections that we have to summarize by way of short videos,” Board member Brian (staff member) said during the meeting. Members discussed having links from HR and other parts of the city website to the Board of Ethics page so employees and the public can find the material easily.
Why it matters: The board said short,…
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