Getting Public Employees Off to a Good Start

摘要

The public agency where I work takes ethics very seriously. I am particularly concerned with issues and reports involving legal and ethical missteps by public agency staff. Some media headlines have described instances of local agency employees using agency credit cards for personal purchases, uniformed public works employees being seen (and videotaped) drinking at lunch, employees being caught selling surplus agency property, agency supervisors filmed using public vehicles for personal errands and public employees going bowling during work hours (apparently a team-building exercise). These stories and reports must be very embarrassing to the leaders of the public agencies involved.