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** TOMORROW: Fostering Public Trust: How to Make Ethics Commissions More Transparent, Accessible and Accountable in 2022 ([link removed])
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State and local ethics commissions serve a vital role in democracy by upholding transparency principles and administering laws intended to preserve the public’s trust in government. Although our federal government attracts media attention, the strength of our democracy greatly relies on the corruption-fighting efforts of ethics commissions. However, due to limited staff, technology, funding and other resources, these important institutions face constant challenges in making their work transparent, accessible and digestible for diverse stakeholders.
The good news - we have solutions for these challenges. On Thursday, January 27 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern/10:00 a.m. Pacific, we'll discuss innovative transparency solutions during Fostering Public Trust: How to Make Ethics Commissions More Transparent, Accessible and Accountable in 2022.
Kedric Payne, CLC's senior director of ethics, will moderate this important discussion based on the recommendations of our most recent report, "Top 10 Transparency Upgrades for Ethics Commissions." ([link removed]) Kedric will be joined by Delaney Marsco, CLC's ethics senior legal counsel, as well as Ross E. Armstrong, Esq., executive director of the Nevada Commission on Ethics, Jeff Mangan, commissioner of political practices for the state of Montana and LeeAnn Pelham, executive director of the City & County of San Francisco Ethics Commission. Paul Smith, senior vice president of litigation strategies at CLC, will offer a special introduction before we begin.
We encourage voters, reporters and members of state and local ethics commissions to join us for this lively discussion - the solutions we talk about could help boost the visibility and accessibility of YOUR local ethics commission.
Date: Thursday, January 27, 2022
Time: 1:00 p.m. Eastern/10:00 a.m. Pacific
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Meet the Speakers
Ross E. Armstrong, Esq. has a long history of serving Nevadans. Before joining the ethics commission, he was as a special prosecutor and then general agency attorney at the Nevada Attorney General’s Office and held administrative positions at the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services.
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Jeff Mangan was appointed Montana’s commissioner of political practices in April 2017. The Commissioner’s office monitors and enforces Montana’s campaign finance laws, the ethical standards for legislators, public officers, and state employees, and investigates campaign finance and lobbying complaints.
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Delaney Marsco joined CLC in January 2018. Her work focuses on government ethics, accountability and transparency. Prior to joining CLC, Delaney was a compliance officer in the financial crime compliance division at Goldman Sachs in New York City. She is a 2015 graduate of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, where she was a public service fellow.
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Kedric Payne specializes in government ethics, lobbying law and election law. He began his career in private practice and has since served in the three branches of federal government. Prior to joining CLC, he advised on executive branch ethics laws as a deputy general counsel at the U.S. Department of Energy. He also enforced legislative branch ethics laws and standards of conduct as deputy chief counsel of the Office of Congressional Ethics, where he was one of the office’s first investigators.
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LeeAnn Pelham has served as executive director of the City & County of San Francisco Ethics Commission since 2016 and was previously the executive director of the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission for 10 years.
Paul Smith joined CLC in January 2017. He works directly with CLC’s talented team of litigators to protect and improve our democracy through innovative litigation strategies. Paul has more than three decades of experience litigating a wide range of cases. He has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court 21 times and secured numerous victories, including in important cases advancing civil liberties.
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