After exploring these websites, share with your colleagues here in the Discussion three main takeaways for you. Consider what you may have found surprising or disappointing. Perhaps you were left with an overall impression about ethics and how things are handled in the public sector. Maybe you realized that an organization that you are familiar with should consider adopting some of the ideas you discovered. Which ideas would you suggest?
Go to the U.S. Office of Government Ethics https://www.oge.gov/ (Links to an external site.)
From the top menu, click on About – then What we Do under Our Mission, Role, and History. Read through it.
Click on Laws and Regulations section – then the Standards of Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch. Click on the Summary of the Standards and read through it.
Explore the remainder of the site.
Go to the Florida Commission on Ethics – http://www.ethics.state.fl.us/ (Links to an external site.)
Go to About Us, then General Information, and read it.
Click on the History link from the About Us tab- read it.
Click on About Us – then Statement of Organization and Operation – read it.
Click on the Public Information tab – then Publications. Under Annual Reports, click on 2019. Read through it.
Go to the Palm Beach County Commission on Ethics – http://www.palmbeachcountyethics.com/ (Links to an external site.)
Read through the page that comes up.
Click on the 2019 Annual Report and read it.
Explore the remainder of the site.
Go to the Broward County Office of the Inspector General – http://www.broward.org/InspectorGeneral/Pages/Default.aspx (Links to an external site.)
Click on the About Us link and then the Mission link – read through the information.
Click on the Investigations tab and read through it.
Click on the Ethics tab, then Public Employees. Click on Florida Code of Ethics for Public Officers and Employees, Part III of Chapter 112, and scan through it.
Explore the remainder of the site.
Go to the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust – http://ethics.miamidade.gov/ (Links to an external site.)
Click on the link for About Ethics (left-hand side, last link)– read the page that comes up.
Under the About Ethics link – click on History and read it.
Explore the remainder of the site.
Reminders:
Postings should be a minimum of two to three paragraphs (300-400 words) that clearly convey your intended meaning.
Your responses to at least two colleagues should be substantive (100 to 200 words) that further enhance the discussion, not just agree or disagree.
You must post/respond on different days throughout the week.
You should aim to be precise in your presentations of others’ ideas (i.e., include sources in APA format)
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