2007-01-10 Board of Ethics Minutes Regular Session

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Board of Ethics Minutes of Regular Session January 10, 2007 effect shall be given to the rules of privilege recognized by law. " What does that mean? BLT: It means that confidential documents, like doctor and patient or advice an attorney may have given his client. That stuff is recognized as privileged and you are not going to take that into evidence without the knowledge and consent of the person who holds the privilege. KS: Okay, so this sentence here, I don't understand it. BLT: So, you would like to make it more understandable? KS: I'm wondering if it can be, if the wording can be written in more common language. I think that this is going to have to be gone through line -by -line, and we are going to have to say that is old, that went out in the Middle Ages. BLT: So this is going to be a long -term project. KS: This is not something that I can put together and say "Here is this, here is this." AL: I do think that we will have to start on this and maybe do purpose and authority, but then go through it bit -by -bit. I don't think it is very bad in general. I think there are some areas that are a little difficult to understand. KS: I am concerned that on page 4 you might find something; then again on page 28 does it really jibe? That's what I have been finding and it brings questions. AL: And for me, part of it too was what we dealt with this past year on the Board of Ethics, like the informal advisory opinion. I was a lot clearer about what all that meant but the ones that I haven't had anything to do with I had a lot more trouble trying to understand. Formal hearings, investigations, and investigatory hearings, because I haven't had any experience with it. KS: The other thing is, if the county and this would make our job really neat. If there was only one other rules of practice that I could find on the County website for one department. If Lincoln, or Mr. Ashida, is thinking about having a universal law about records disposal and maintenance, wouldn't it be nice if the County had a universal, at least table of contents that these are the items that every board and commission have to cover, because they are different. So, I like standardization throughout. I'm sure he has that on his top burner and he is going to do this. If we could look, or find out within the county if there are other departments that have more current, perhaps we could pattern ours. RW: The thing is that do you think there is anyone more vanguard than us? 0