As part of a structured review of the ICMA Code of Ethics, members are encouraged to provide input on the relevancy of Tenet 12 to the profession: "Seek no favor; believe that personal aggrandizement or profit secured by confidential information or by misuse of public time is dishonest.”
This tenet covers a broad range of common issues that are significant to professionals working in local government: gifts, conflicts of interest, personal relationships, use of confidential information, outside employment, and endorsements. Because professionals encounter these issues on a regular basis, and they can be complicated to address, this tenet and the guidelines generate many requests to ICMA for ethics advice.
Members are invited to provide their feedback here by May 2. (You will have to create a mindmixer account or login using your FaceBook credentials.)
For more details about this review of Tenet 12, read the article here.
Questions? Contact Martha Perego, ethics director at mperego@icma.org.
[Note: You can also provide your feedback through the ICMA website at icma.org/tenet12. You will have to create a mindmixer account to login.]
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