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Annotated
Resource List for Ethics
1.
General
2.
Agency Websites—Connecticut’s three primary “watchdog” agencies:
3.
The CT General Assembly’s Office of Legislative Research (OLR) puts its
reports and summaries of public acts online at www.cga.state.ct.us/olr.
This year it posted a good overview of
recent changes in the state ethics laws, dating from 1994, in Document
#2004-R-0434 —Ethics Reform and
Enforcement Legislation.
The
OLR has a searchable database for finding other reports. Here are a few other
relevant documents, by number and in chronological order. To view them, type in
entire document number in the proper line on the OLR search page.
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Governmental
Ethics--2000-R-0089, 2000-R-0154
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Voting
Restrictions In State Ethics Codes--2000-R-0155
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State
And Municipal Ethics Codes— 2001-R-0788
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The
Number Of Complaints Received/Heard By The Board Of Ethics--2002-R-0315
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Municipal
Ethics and Corruption--2003-R-0259
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Municipalities
that require Financial Disclosure Statements-- 2003-R-0551
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Municipal
Ethics--2003-R-0947
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Ethics
Code on Giving and Reporting Gifts--2003-R-0847
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Gift
Disclosures as a Condition of Contract Approvals--2004-R-0164
4.
Miscellaneous Organizations with Interests in Ethics
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Common
Cause
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Common
Cause CT
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Press
release regarding 2003 cuts to State Ethics Commission--
www.commoncause.org/states/connecticut/ccethics.pdf1
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Proposed
2003 budget cuts to three watchdog agencies in CT-- www.commoncause.org/states/connecticut/budcuts.pdf1
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CT
Conference of Small Towns—www.ctcost.org/priorities.htm
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CT
Conference of Municipalities—www.ccmlac.org
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The
Center for Public Integrity — www.publicintegrity.org/hiredguns/nationwide.aspx1
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National
Council of State Legislatures—www.ncsl.org/programs/ethics
5.
Media (A sample of the publications that our group used for its research. Search
for recent articles. There may be a charge for archived articles.)
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