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Commission on Ethics amends administrative regulations to narrow 'subject' definition, add discretion on defective anonymous complaints
Summary
The Commission on Ethics voted unanimously to adopt two changes to its administrative regulations, reverting the definition of “subject” to mean only a public officer or public employee and changing a proposed mandatory rejection of defective anonymous complaints to a discretionary standard, the commission’s executive director said.
The Commission on Ethics voted unanimously to adopt two targeted changes to its proposed administrative regulations after a public hearing and staff presentation.
Executive Director Bill Armstrong told the commission the revisions respond to concerns raised by the Legislative Commission and clarify the agency’s administrative procedures. "For the ethics commission, all the actual ethics rules ... are set in statute," Armstrong said, explaining that the administrative code functions as a procedure manual for hearing and process timelines.
The commission approved reverting a proposed expansion of the term "subject" back to the narrower language — "public officer or public employee" — after the Legislative Commission…
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