Richard Roberts of the Municipal Practice Group facilitated a seminar, “Ethics, Accountability and Conflicts of Interest,” attended by several dozen municipal employees and officials at a Connecticut Conference of Municipalities workshop held on April 29, 2010 at the Groton Town Hall Annex. of the Municipal Practice Group facilitated a seminar, “Ethics, Accountability and Conflicts of Interest,” attended by several dozen municipal employees and officials at a Connecticut Conference of Municipalities workshop held on April 29, 2010 at the Groton Town Hall Annex.
The program covered municipal ethics from a legal perspective. Topics included creation of ethics codes and ethics commissions, procedures and due process for ethics commissions, confidentiality requirements, statutory and case law guidance and protection from self-interest, self-dealing, influence, bias and prejudgment.