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Enforcement update: Ethics Commission reports training, rising complaints in 2018 and staffing steps to address backlog
Summary
Enforcement staff reported a whistleblower-training partnership with the state, noted preliminary-review complaints fell to 82 while overall filings rose to 160 in 2018, and described recent hires and possible priority-setting to reduce case age.
Enforcement staff told the San Francisco Ethics Commission that the office has begun using lessons from a state Labor Commissioner training to refine whistleblower-protection investigations and that caseload numbers show both recent improvement and a multi-year increase in complaints.
An enforcement lead summarized last week's training with the State Labor Commissioner's office and said it covered investigative methods and how the state frames retaliation claims, including "anticipatory…
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