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Ethics and Conduct Review Board appoints subcommittee to review Santa Fe ethics code
Summary
The Ethics and Conduct Review Board voted to form a three-member subcommittee to compare the city’s ethics code with other local codes and prepare recommendations for the City Council; members cited potential gaps and last code edits in February 2016.
The Ethics and Conduct Review Board voted to create a three-member subcommittee to review Santa Fe’s municipal ethics code and consider recommending ordinance changes to the City Council.
Board Member Terry introduced the proposal, saying, “I would like to suggest that we, have a subcommittee take a look at the city's ethics code and, maybe compare it to some of these other ones that I actually have in my files.” Terry said he has taught public ethics through New Mexico State University’s outreach program and has collected county and city codes to use as comparisons.
The board discussed several areas of concern raised by Terry: the city code’s relative brevity, potential gaps in definitions and enforcement, and limits on state oversight under the Governmental Conduct Act. Terry said the most recent edits to the…
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