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Dallas inspector general briefs commission on trainings, investigations and push for limited law-enforcement powers
Summary
At its April 15 meeting the Dallas Ethics Advisory Commission heard a second-quarter briefing from the Office of Inspector General that outlined trainings, a fraud roundtable with visitors from Belarus, management alerts, one filed ethics charge and active legislation seeking limited law-enforcement authority for the office.
Bart Beavers, the city of Dallas inspector general, told the Ethics Advisory Commission on April 15 that the office completed a mix of training, outreach and investigatory work during the second quarter of the fiscal year.
Beavers said the office delivered 10 trainings and conducted six departmental risk assessments that together reached 608 people. He told the commission the office prepared “five or six” public service announcements for communications and attended a strategic communications training by the Association of Inspectors General.
The work also included international engagement: Beavers described hosting a fraud-and-corruption roundtable with participants who had left Belarus. He said the meeting was striking because the visitors had been “former” prosecutors and investigators who had to flee their country, and that some had…
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