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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
See Dr. Craig Walton's summary of May Meeting

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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News NCPE at NV Legislature - 2007 Proposals

 

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:
(1) Add Requirement that LLCs (limited liability corporations) list their partners
(2). Lobbyist Disclosure Changes

NRS 281.421 and 281.501: Remove the proportionality exception to Conflict of Interest Disclosure:

NRS 281.465 : Allow a county to have an ethics law which is more restrictive

NRS 281.481:
(1) Public Officials Reporting of Gifts
(2) Close the loophole in NRS 281.481.1:

NRS 281.501
(1) What comes after abstaining.
(2) Editorial Revision
(3) Failure of consistency in the language about seeking gifts

NRS 281.551 (6) & NRS 281.4375:
Replace definition of willful

NRS 281.559 and 281.561:
(1) Public Officials Disclosure (Appointed: NRS 281.559; Campaigning and Elected, 281.561)

NRS 281.561
(2) Campaign contribution Reporting
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