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Tallahassee ethics office unveils AI-driven, scenario-based ethics training for city employees
Summary
The ethics office will roll out scenario-based online ethics training this summer for all city employees and volunteers, using AI-created videos and 10-case modules tailored to public safety, leadership and staff; modules collect responses for follow-up training rather than issuing a pass/fail score.
The City of Tallahassee's Independent Ethics Board on April 21 reviewed a new scenario-based ethics-training program that the ethics office plans to roll out to all city employees this summer. The modules use AI-generated video scenarios (created with tools the office described as Articulate, AI video software and other platforms) and are tailored to audience types: 10 scenarios each for public safety staff, leadership, general staff and regulatory/compliance personnel.
Tasker Leverson Green, the ethics training coordinator, described how each module presents a short dramatized scenario and asks learners to select how they would respond and then explain their reasoning. "In this course, you will review 10 scenarios and choose how you would respond in each one," she told the board, adding that the scenarios are intended to prompt reflection rather than produce a single correct answer. The office demonstrated a public-safety scenario in which a 911 dispatcher recognizes a caller as a family member and must decide whether to handle the call, transfer it, or follow policy and request a crisis-intervention response.
Staff said modules will not give a pass/fail score; instead the training will collect responses and other data points to identify patterns that inform follow-up outreach and additional training. The ethics office emphasized accessibility and flexibility: employees can pause and return to modules later, and staff plan to make the training available to volunteer advisory-board members if the ordinance expanding jurisdiction is adopted.
The ethics office noted subscriptions and production tools it uses, including Articulate, Grammarly, Natural Readers and AI video software; staff also said they opted not to attend an external Articulate conference this year to conserve budget. Dwight Floyd, the ethics office director, reported about $244,000 remaining in the office's budget.
Board members supported the scenario approach as a way to practice decision-making and surface "subculture" pressures (peer expectations) that can push employees away from policy-compliant choices. Staff will finalize rollout logistics and make the modules available to covered volunteers if and when the board's jurisdictional ordinance is adopted by the City Commission.
The board did not take additional formal action on the training at the meeting beyond receiving the demonstration and confirming planned summer deployment.
