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<p>All board members and applicants shall agree to comply with the organization's ethics code and the ethical guidelines on conflicts adopted by the Board on______.</p>

<h3>Areas to check:</h3>
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<li>Using office for private gain</li>
<li>using organization resources for personal purposes</li>
<li>soliciting gifts or accepting gifts from persons doing business with the organization</li>
<li>seeking or accepting private compensation for doing one's work (gratuities)</li>
<li>soliciting political contributions or political activity from subordinates</li>

<h2>How to use the Federal Sentencing Guidelines (FSG) to establish or strengthen ethics programs</h2>

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I've been on a sort of work-leave the last two weeks. My town, North Haven, Connecticut (pop. 24,000), has been a mess for a long time, but few people have cared enough to pay attention, and those who criticize the administration are personally attacked and delegitimized. It was my town's mess, and my inability to do anything locally, that led me to do work for Common Cause Connecticut, and then devote myself full-time to municipal ethics by coming to work for City Ethics.

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<p>Many citizens and government officials see the need to strengthen ethics programs in their cities, towns, and counties. But how do you get started? Do you have to be a lawyer to understand and work through this process?</p>

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From: <a href="http://www.myjoyonline.com/archives/news/200704/3738.asp"><b>Ghana News Online</b></a>

Memphis has been the scene of some serious corruption in the last few years. And for years before that, as well, although they say that in the old days the corruption was institutionalized, so that there were rules about how you could and could not take advantage of your office.

In round numbers, in the last six years, 66 officials, employees, and contractors have been found guilty of various sorts of government-related crimes. In a city of only 650,000 people, that puts Memphis in the per-capita lead.

Many areas of ethics have little overlap with municipal ethics. But one rather specialized area that I came across has some interesting applications: the ethics of casting love spells.