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WEBSITES CONCERNING THIRD PARTY ETHICS
There is a surprising lack of website that deal specifically with Third Party Ethics.
What follows is a small collection of websites that pertain to government ethics. Most of theses websites deal specifically with government contractors and ethics.
American Society of Public Administration (ASPA): A national society that advocates for greater effectiveness in government. ASPA believes in embracing new ideas, addressing key public service issues and promoting change at both the local and international government levels. http://www.aspanet.org/scriptcontent/index.cfm
PA Times: ASPA's monthly newspaper covers developments in the academic and professional field of public administration. Article topics include successful local state and federal government programs, PA trends and new PA methods.http://www.aspanet.org/scriptcontent/index_patimes.cfm
Public Administration Review: A bi-monthly scholarly journal in the field of public administration research and theory produced by ASPA. http://www.aspanet.org/scriptcontent/index_par.cfm
Center for Law Enforcement Ethics: The Institute for Law Enforcement Administration (ILEA) initiated the Center for Law Enforcement Ethics to focus attention on ethical issues in the police profession. The goals of the Ethics Center are to examine the ethics of professional obligations in law enforcement, explore strategies that enhance the ethical climate in policing, and establish programs that will provide ethical decision-making tools. http://www.cailaw.org/ilea/ethics.html
Council on Governmental Ethics Laws (COGEL): The Council is a professional organization for government agencies, organizations, and individuals with responsibilities or interests in governmental ethics, elections, campaign finance, lobby laws and freedom of information. http://www.cogel.org/
Ethics & Compliance Officer Association (ECOA): This non-profit association is for individuals who are responsible for their organization's ethics, compliance, and business conduct programs. http://www.theecoa.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&Template=/Templates/TemplateHomepage/EthicsComplianceOfficerAssociation _ 1 510_20070109T133141_LayoutHomePage.cfm
Ethics Resource Center (ERC): A non-profit organization devoted to the advancement of high ethical standards and practices in public and private institutions. ERC informs the public dialogue on ethics and ethical behavior. The organization analyzes current and emerging issues and produces new ideas and benchmarks. The website includes a “Toolkit,” with tips and guidelines for writing codes of ethics, an ethics glossary, values definitions and other short articles on the practice of organizational ethics.http://www.ethics.org/resources/ethics-toolkit.asp
Government Accountability Project: A non-profit organization whose mission is to protect the public interest by promoting government and corporate accountability through advancing occupational free speech and ethical conduct, defending whistleblowers, and empowering citizen activists. http://www.whistleblower.org/
Institute for Local Government (California): The Institute is the non-profit research affiliate of the California State Association of Counties and the League of California Cities. The Institute has developed "The Local Official's Ethics Resource Center" to assist local officials with a broad range of ethical issues. http://www.cacities.org/index.jsp?zone=ilsg
International City/County Management Association (ICMA): ICMA fosters excellence in local governance by developing professional local government management worldwide. The organization provides technical and management assistance, training, and information resources in the areas of performance measurement, ethics education and training, community and economic development, environmental management, technology, and other topics to its members and the broader local government community. ICMA’s mission is to promote an ethical culture in local government. The organization has a database of advice on ethics issues, case studies and model local government documents. This knowledge base has been translated into training courses, consulting services, ethics textbooks and other educational publications. http://icma.org/main/bc.asp?bcid=649&hsid=1&ssid1=2530
Public Management Magazine: Public Management (PM) is the official magazine of ICMA. PM is dedicated exclusively to the public sector practitioner. Articles deal with issues of common concern to local government managers. The print version of PM is published 11 times a year. http://www1.icma.org/pm/8506/
International Institute for Public Ethics (IIPE): The Institute is an international professional association for practitioners and scholars working in the field of public sector ethics. Its prime objective is to develop an international and professional community of public sector ethicists, and to offer support for scholars and practitioners in the field. http://www.iipe.org/
League of California Cities: http://www.cacities.org/index.jsp
LegalEthics.com: LegalEthics.com is a web site focused on the ethical issues associated with the use of technology by legal professionals. http://www.legalethics.com/?page_id=2
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University, CA : The Center provides a place for research and dialogue on ethical issues in critical areas of American life. The Center works with faculty, staff, students, community leaders, and the public to address ethical issues more effectively in teaching, research, and action. http://www.scu.edu/ethics/
National Association of Counties (NACo): A national organization that represents county governments in the United States. NACo advances issues before the federal government, improves the public's understanding of county government, assists counties in finding and sharing innovative solutions through education and research, and provides value-added services to save counties and taxpayers money. The County Resource Centers section provides links to numerous resources. http://www.naco.org/
National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL): Center for Ethics in Government: NCSL provides research, technical assistance and opportunities for policymakers to exchange ideas on the most pressing state issues. NCSL is an advocate for the interests of state governments before Congress and federal agencies. NCSL's Ethics Center has compiled state-by-state data on legislative ethics laws in seven major categories: gifts, honorariums, nepotism, revolving door, conflict of interest, financial disclosure and lobbyists. http://www.ncsl.org/programs/ethics/index.htm
National League of Cities (NLC): The League is a national organization representing municipal governments throughout the United States. Its mission is to strengthen and promote cities as centers of opportunity, leadership, and governance. http://www.nlc.org/
United States Office of Government Ethics (OGE): An agency within the executive branch, the OGE exercises leadership in the executive branch to prevent conflicts of interest on the part of government employees, and to resolve those conflicts of interest that do occur. The “Common Ethics Issues” section contains summaries of substantive ethics matters such as gifts, conflicting financial interests, impartiality, seeking employment and post-employment, misuse of position, outside activities, financial disclosure, and recusals, waivers and trusts. http://www.usoge.gov/
Virginia Association of Counties (VACo): A state association that exists to support county officials and to effectively represent, promote and protect the interests of counties to better serve the people of the Commonwealth of Virginia. VACo represents local governments at the state and national levels in legislative and regulatory processes. VACo publishes its newsletter, County Connections, twice a month. VACo's legislative bulletin, Capitol Contact, is published at least twice a week when the General Assembly is in session. http://www.vaco.org
Virginia Coalition for Open Government: A non-profit coalition alliance formed to promote expanded access to government records, meetings and other proceedings at the state and local level. This site includes substantial information regarding the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. http://www.opengovva.org/
Virginia Institute of Government: affiliated with the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, University of Virginia. The Institute was established to increase the training, technical services and information resources available to the Commonwealth's local governments. THE COLUMN is a quarterly newsletter published by the Institute. http://www.coopercenter.org/institute/
Virginia Local Government Management Association (VLGMA): An affiliate of the Virginia Municipal League, VGLMA is a non-profit organization composed primarily of city, town, and county managers and key members of their management teams. The primary goal of the association is to strengthen the quality of local government through professional management, through training, networking, and resource sharing. http://www.vlgma.org
Virginia Municipal League (VML): The League is a statewide, nonprofit association of city, town and county governments established to improve and assist local governments through legislative advocacy, research, education and other services. VML distributes information and news to its members through publication of the monthly Virginia Town & City magazine, the biweekly Update newsletter and the Legislative Bulletin while the General Assembly is in session. www.vml.org/
Virginia State Bar (VSB): The Virginia State Bar is responsible for the regulation of the legal profession, protection of the public from lawyer misconduct and support for the rule of law. The Professional Regulation Department of the VSB includes the Standing Committees on Lawyer Discipline, Legal Ethics, Lawyer Advertising and Solicitation, and Unauthorized Practice of Law. It also includes the clerk’s office, the disciplinary board and the disciplinary committees. The Virginia Lawyer and the Virginia Lawyer Register magazines are the official publications of the Virginia State Bar and are distributed to lawyers, judges, general subscribers, law libraries, other state bar associations and the media. The Virginia State Bar publishes pamphlets and handbooks on law-related issues for Virginia's lawyers and Virginia's citizens. http://www.vsb.org/site/regulation/
Virginia State Code Searchable Database: The Virginia General Assembly provides access to the Code of Virginia. The database is searchable by code section or keyword. http://leg1.state.va.us/000/src.htm
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