Comments on: Emails and ethics training . . . ? http://PassOpenRecords.Org/2007/12/20/emails-and-ethics-training/ A Movement to Lift the Lid on Pennsylvania Government Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:42:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: JamieB http://PassOpenRecords.Org/2007/12/20/emails-and-ethics-training/#comment-1431 JamieB Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:19:04 +0000 http://PassOpenRecords.Org/2007/12/20/emails-and-ethics-training/#comment-1431 Wondering makes a good point, and certainly we all need to have our ethical compasses calibrated regularly. It's just that, as Dani points out, when you have an ethics coach on what appears to be a retainer, and a pretty expensive one, at public expense . . . and when that coach is the person who discovers that you have 31,000 emails that could be a problem . . . well, perhaps you do have a problem. And I believe that one good way to address that problem is a better open-records law and more transparency in goverment. Wondering makes a good point, and certainly we all need to have our ethical compasses calibrated regularly. It’s just that, as Dani points out, when you have an ethics coach on what appears to be a retainer, and a pretty expensive one, at public expense . . . and when that coach is the person who discovers that you have 31,000 emails that could be a problem . . . well, perhaps you do have a problem.

And I believe that one good way to address that problem is a better open-records law and more transparency in goverment.

]]> By: dani_k http://PassOpenRecords.Org/2007/12/20/emails-and-ethics-training/#comment-1430 dani_k Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:49:43 +0000 http://PassOpenRecords.Org/2007/12/20/emails-and-ethics-training/#comment-1430 @Wondering: Jamie wasn't criticizing the fact that legislators have ethics training, he was criticizing a $25k/month contract to teach legislators - well, technically only House Democrats, I guess - about ethics and, according to the Post-Gazette "cooperate with law enforcement officials" and comply with the "legal process," a task that he's been paid 279,897 so far, for a contract that runs through November 2008.) @Wondering: Jamie wasn’t criticizing the fact that legislators have ethics training, he was criticizing a $25k/month contract to teach legislators - well, technically only House Democrats, I guess - about ethics and, according to the Post-Gazette “cooperate with law enforcement officials” and comply with the “legal process,” a task that he’s been paid 279,897 so far, for a contract that runs through November 2008.)

]]> By: Wondering http://PassOpenRecords.Org/2007/12/20/emails-and-ethics-training/#comment-1429 Wondering Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:45:57 +0000 http://PassOpenRecords.Org/2007/12/20/emails-and-ethics-training/#comment-1429 Do journalists ever have ethics training? If so, why would you criticize legislators for having ethics training? And if not, why not? Do journalists ever have ethics training? If so, why would you criticize legislators for having ethics training? And if not, why not?

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