Committee narrows ethics commission reclassification denials, allows auditor reclassification to support audit program

BLA summarized five recommended actions for the Ethics Commission, including denying several upward‑substitution requests to higher classifications (auditor series and investigator upgrades) and recommending position adjustments tied to the department’s enforcement and audit work. Executive Director Patrick Ford presented the commission’s recent effort to clear a decade‑long audit backlog (outsourcing historically used) and argued establishing auditor classifications would allow internally managed audits to be conducted faster and, over time, more cost‑effectively.