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

Candidate Pledge

Email NCPE Treasurer

NCPE at NV Legislature - 2007 Proposals

NCPE 2007 Ethics Legislation Proposals

3. NRS 281.501: Failure of consistency in the language about seeking gifts::

Rationale:

NRS  281.481 says, AA public officer shall not seek or accept....@ [emphasis added], but then at 281.501, this time discussing conflicts of interest, it now says, at section 2, (a), Ahis acceptance of a gift....@. First, neither seek nor accept; then, only acceptance is a problem. This inconsistency was probably due to an oversight.  Or it might have been due to an effort to allow the seeking of gifts when conflicts of interest are being defined, only punish the accepting. But in either case, the time is ripe to strengthen 281.481 by keeping the language prohibiting the seeking or accepting of gifts at .481, AND to follow this consistently so that under .501,  seeking is covered, along with accepting.

BDR:

Edit so as to retain the meaning of .481 and build on it in .501, by keeping the wording of .481 but then revising .501 to read, at section 2 (a), A...his seeking or acceptance of a gift.....

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: