According to an
article this week in the Sun-Sentinel,
the Broward County, FL commission is discussing changes to the countywide ethics program, focusing on gifts and ethics advice.
Gift Bans
Conversations about the problems with gift bans are like Hollywood monsters: they never die (see my 2010 blog post on the last such discussion I covered). In Broward County, the monster's roar hasn't changed.
The principal complaint is that a gift ban is just a way to trap elected officials into ethics violations. But, according to the article, no official has been charged with accepting a de minimis gift. The entrapment argument is a phony one.
Gift Bans
Conversations about the problems with gift bans are like Hollywood monsters: they never die (see my 2010 blog post on the last such discussion I covered). In Broward County, the monster's roar hasn't changed.
The principal complaint is that a gift ban is just a way to trap elected officials into ethics violations. But, according to the article, no official has been charged with accepting a de minimis gift. The entrapment argument is a phony one.