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NCPE Town Hall Meeting Join us on June 28, 2008 for the Third NCPE Town Hall Meeting. NCPE in the News: 2008 "Court Hopeful Says Consultant Pitched Deal" (Las Vegas Review Journal) "Given $50,000 He Decides to Run" (Las Vegas Sun) Acting President Julie Tousa on Jon Ralston's "Face to Face: Ethics Complaint" Meet the Acting President of NCPE, Julie Tousa "New Watchdog of Public Ethics Continues Enforcing Vital Unwritten Law" (Las Vegas Review Journal) "Partying Away As Taxpayers Pay and Pay" (Las Vegas Sun) Ethics Legislation 2007 NCPE at the 2007 Nevada State Legislature: Summary and Details "Article 6 Commission" to study and recommend improvements in the Nevada judiciary NCPE statement about the danger of big donors contributing to Supreme Court justice election campaigns. Judicial Ethics & the Complaint Processes Craig Walton's letter, to the Las Vegas Business Journal in favor of the new plan for judicial selection
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NCPE 2007 Ethics Legislation Proposals (2) . Close the loophole in NRS 281.481.1: Rationale: The statute currently reads that a public officer A...shall not accept any gift...which would tend improperly to influence a reasonable person in his position....@ Why include improperly? Is there a way properly to influence a public officer by giving a gift? We think there is no way properly to try to influence a public official by way of gift-giving. Use of the word is not only unnecessary, but also bad policy because it opens a loophole to disputes and degrees of what counts as >proper=. This loophole has been used as such by lawyers defending complainees who are seen by citizens who complain about those seen as improperly taking gifts. BDR: Delete the word, improperly. Continue reading 2007 proposals NRS 218.900-944: NRS 281.561
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