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Commission discusses legislative priorities for 2026; personal‑knowledge rule and whistleblower protections draw most debate
Summary
The Ethics Commission reviewed possible legislative recommendations for 2026 and asked staff to return with narrower, prioritized proposals on the personal‑knowledge standard, whistleblower protections, and other technical fixes.
The Ethics Commission spent substantial time reviewing and refining a draft set of legislative priorities for the 2026 session, with commissioners focusing on whether to pursue changes to the personal‑knowledge standard used to screen complaints and whether to seek whistleblower‑style protections for complainants.
Key proposals reviewed Staff presented a supplemental memo listing possible legislative recommendations, including: (a) a carve‑out or statutory clarification to allow certain official investigatory documents (police reports, agency internal investigations, IG reports, audits) to be treated as "information other than hearsay" for sufficiency purposes; (b) a…
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