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Denton ethics board considers requiring violators to reimburse city legal costs for deliberate breaches
2532483 · March 10, 2025
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Summary
Board members discussed adding reimbursement of the city's outside counsel costs to the sanctions list for knowingly intentional or frivolous ethics violations and asked staff and counsel to research legal feasibility under Texas law.
Board members reviewed the ethics ordinance’s existing sanctions chart — letters of notification, admonition, reprimand, suspension (not applicable to council), and vendor ineligibility — and discussed whether to add an option to require a respondent to reimburse the city’s legal costs when a violation is…
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