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Board of Ethics <br />Minutes of Regular Session <br />March 14, 2007 <br />KS: What? Oh, right. <br />AL: See what I mean about obsessive details. <br />WJ: You're good, because I don't see these things. <br />AL: I see it in published books and newspapers are terrible. <br />WJ: Let's not talk about newspapers. <br />AL: That is all the little nit -picky things that I have. <br />BLT: Oh, I've got different fonts, italics, and regular on other ones. The only real <br />difference, other than highlighting and putting in bold and underlining, is on page 2. That should <br />be in bold, under Fair Treatment. On the first column, towards the bottom, under Fair <br />Treatment, there is a new section called "Note." That was because Section 13 -10 is actually not <br />in the Code of Ethics. It is in another section of the Charter, but the appointment of a relative <br />would be the use of your county position to secure grant and unwarranted privilege. That is why <br />I put it in. It is also a conflict of interest to supervise a relative, unless it's your civil service and <br />their civil service. <br />AL: That is good. <br />WJ: Let me ask you, when a candidate files for office and they file a financial <br />disclosure who gets to see that? <br />BLT: Anybody can go and request to see it. <br />WJ: It becomes public record? <br />BLT: Yeah, it gets filed. Actually, it goes to the elections office and anybody that <br />wants to can go and look at that, and on top of that ... <br />WJ: But, is there a group that insures that it is filled out correctly? <br />BLT: Yeah, the Elections people look at it, not to mention news reporters. Then all the <br />campaign spending reports, they have gradually been moving to online so they are accessible. <br />Depending on where you file there is usually a hard copy available. The difficulty has been that <br />the software that people use has, maybe they have worked the glitches out. When I was doing <br />mine they had glitches and it didn't add stuff up right, so we didn't want to transmit <br />electronically because there were two problems. One, the transmitting of information that wasn't <br />required to be disclosed. The other one was that it wasn't adding up the numbers right and we <br />could never get the software so we would do a hard copy and submit it. Nowadays you could <br />scan it and email it. There were some real problems. There is much more information than there <br />11 <br />