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Marietta council debates ordinance language that would delay ethics complaints during election period
Summary
City councilmembers spent extended discussion on a proposed ethics ordinance change that would limit when ethics complaints can be filed around election dates; no formal vote was taken beyond first-reading status.
Marietta councilmembers spent more than an hour debating a proposed change to the city’s ethics/complaint code that would restrict the filing of ethics complaints during a defined election period and delay processing until after elections.
At Tuesday’s meeting, several councilmembers expressed concern that the change — which would make a provision effective in January but would block filing during the period from mid-August through early November — could leave candidates unable to respond if a complaint surfaced in the run-up to an election. “So basically, from August 18 until November 4 … you still have 6 months,” one councilmember said, adding that…
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