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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 "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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In the near future, we hope, NCPE will undertake to work with the Governor, the office of the Attorney General, and the Legislature to fulfill the provisions of NRS 281.661 by making available to all public employees in Nevada a copy of this statute and information about which channel to use in order to disclose acts of intimidation or retribution when they occur. What follows is, first, our summary of the statute, and then the full text of the statute. Garcetti v. Ceballos comments from Duke Law The Supreme Court further limits First Amendment protection for public employees NCPE's Summary of NRS 281.611-671 This part of Nevada Revised Statutes is titled, Disclosure of Improper Governmental Action. It includes Prohibition of Intimidation, Reprisal or other Punishment of those who so‑disclose. Nevada Revised Statutes provide that it is the policy of the State of Nevada that all state and local officers and employees are encouraged to disclose improper governmental actions. Further, they forbid intimidation of those who might think of disclosing such actions, and forbid reprisal or retribution of any kind against one who discloses such actions. Finally, each administrative head of a local government, and the Director of the Department of Personnel at the State level, must provide a current summary of all these provisions to every state and local government official and employee each year. Implicitly, the channel for disclosing improper governmental action, or for bringing charges against one who intimidates or carries out reprisal or retribution for such disclosing, would be located within one=s department or division. NCPE will investigate further to find out which channels are where, and what to do if one=s nearest channel is also the person who is seen to doing the intimidating or reprisal. Nevada here expects every government employee at every level to disclose wrongdoing by another or others abusing their authority, and provides for definition, hearing and punishment where appropriate for anyone who uses his or her office to try to silence, intimidate, or, if the disclosure has already occurred, to punish by reprisal or retribution the person who made the needed disclosure. Moral and intellectual integrity are expected in every Nevada State and local government official and employee, and definition and punishment is provided for anyone working to prevent or punish acts of integrity in government service. It is vital to the moral integrity of government in Nevada that this statute, in all its provisions, be widely known and circulated.
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