Amendment to ethics bill weakens public corruption investigations
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Amendment to ethics bill weakens public corruption investigations
Boy, 3, grandmother injured after being bitten by family's German Shephard in southwest Miami-Dade
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MIAMI – If Florida senators’ recent vote counts, local ethics commissions’ ability to investigate tips from whistleblowers in need of anonymity will no longer be a way to stand against public officials’ unethical behavior.
Florida Sen. Danny Burgess, of Zephyrhills, filed late-hour amendments to State Bill 7014: Ethics on Wednesday.
He said he wants the limits already in place for the state commission to be passed onto the local commissions.
“We want to be consistent,” Burgess, the state commission’s chair, said during the state senators’ debate on Thursday.
Florida senators passed the bill 39-0 on Thursday requiring local investigators to have a signed and sworn complaint from someone with “personal knowledge” of the wrongdoing to start an investigation.
“It completely eviscerates any local investigative authority,” Miami-Dade County Commission on Ethics and Public Trust Executive Director Jose Arrojo said on Sunday during This Week In South Florida.
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