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The Ethical GPS: Navigating Everyday Dilemmas
Recognizing that many government officials and employees seem to be ill-trained on ethics, Frank Shafroth, who teaches an ethics course at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and MPA students from the 4th Cohort of the Northern Virginia Public Service Fellows, put together a guidebook, tool kit and support materials on ethics for Virginia local government officials.
This guidebook, titled "The Ethical GPS: Navigating Everyday Dilemmas," is distributed to elected officials, managers, and clerks in Virginia Municipal League-member localities.
Cohort students interviewed appointed and elected officials and employees from various northern Virginia local governments to ask if they were aware of the ethics rules or code of conduct in their jurisdiction and if they had been trained in those ethics when they began their jobs. "The answer to all of those questions was an overwhelmingly no" says Shafroth.
This guide, available below, was printed in March 2008, for use by the Virginia Municipal League, the Virginia Association of Counties, and other local government jurisdictions. The National League of Cities, based in Washington hopes to adopt the guide for national use.
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