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Knox County subcommittee keeps one-year lobbying ban, forwards ethics code to full committee

Knox County Ethics Committee Subcommittee on Policies and Procedures · April 15, 2026
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The Knox County Ethics Committee Subcommittee voted to retain a one-year ban on former local officials representing clients before the county and approved forwarding the revised Code of Ethics to the full Ethics Committee for a vote.

The Knox County Ethics Committee Subcommittee on Policies and Procedures voted to keep the county's post-service lobbying prohibition at one year and approved sending the proposed Code of Ethics updates to the full Ethics Committee for consideration.

The subcommittee debated section 4.6, which bars a person who has been elected to any county office from personally representing another person or entity for compensation before the governing body of which the person was an officer. Miss Gibson, who researched…

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