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Knox County ethics subcommittee narrows complaint authority, clarifies disclosures and training timeline
Summary
The Knox County Ethics Subcommittee agreed to tighten complaint language so the law director handles investigations, to require five-year reviews of the code and annual training for committee members, and to clarify where conflict-of-interest disclosure forms are stored.
Knox County — The Knox County Ethics Subcommittee spent the majority of its meeting reviewing proposed changes to the county code of ethics, agreeing to tighten complaint-handling language, require periodic review of the code and set a timeline for annual training.
The committee approved the January 28 minutes and discussed a suite of edits to definitions, complaint procedures, disclosures and recordkeeping. Committee members agreed to change draft language so that the law director, not the ethics committee, is the office charged with investigating "any credible complaint against an official or employee charged with a violation of the code of ethics," a phrasing Steven Goodpaster suggested and members accepted in principle.
"It says under Section 9.08 f, no elected or appointed official or employee of Knox County shall advocate, recommend, etcetera, for advancement of…
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