but not all ethics and corruption cases rise to this level. d.c. council member mcduffy is approving legislation allowing the ethics office to secretly admonish employees for my northbound violations. >> there's an ethics cloud over the city. we need to get people to participate. >> city ethics director said secret admonishes are posted on his website without identifying information. he said the goal is to curb improper behavior before it mushrooms and to make guidelines clear to workers. >> we can take quick action. it provides the ability for a contrite official or government employee to take responsibility quickly for a minor infraction and to, to address it quickly. >> the district has about 34,000 city workers plus elected official, all subject to tougher ethics rules. but some employees are reluctant to put their names on formal complaints that could come back to hurt their careers. >> we need to make sure they are enforced and the agencies charged with enforcement have the tools necessary to do their job inner loop does this office have a se

city attorney, among the proposals that we will be sending forward soon is a requirement that the ethics commission publish a contributor guide in addition to all of the guides that we have, something that we have not done in the past. it just so happens that we already had one in the works. so we bring to you a proposed draft of that, we think that it is fairly comprehensive. and the only other thing that i want to say it has a few minute of last minute typos that we want to correct before the commission considers adopting this document. >> okay. >> let's see the first typo is right at the very beginning. where in the introduction, there is just a space between the and the end of this page. so it is just a movement. >> second typo is page 4. first line, yes, as long as the contribution is under 100,000 dollars. and the third typo, is on page 5, make a contribution, and the word contribution was spelled incorrectly. >> and the other thing that i wanted to say was generally speaking the commission approves these guides initially. but as legislation and regulation pass that it is just the

so tonight, is her last evening, as a commissioner on the ethics commission and fairly memorable one at that. >> and i am sure. >> you will be missed greatly. >> i will miss everyone on the commission and the commission staff a great deal. >> but in the as much as we will miss you. >> and it is just it has been a rare pleasure and a rare honor to work with you and have you not only a member but a marvelous chair. and you know, i think that you have been a great leader and just so wise, wise and underline wise because you have this body of knowledge and this acute level of inquiry and insight in things and you have tried so hard to be thoughtful and fair and succeeded, well succeeded. and you bring to it also, not only thoughtfulness, but compassion which is so important and truly an academic and i have learned so much from you and it feels wonderful to know at my age i have people around that are mentors and also friends and it just means the world that you have been here. >> and we will miss you. i can guarantee. >> it is a truly a pleasure of serving with you and you helped me and

please visit us onli >> meeting of the san francisco ethic's commission will now come to order. >> commissioner renne? >> here. >> commissioner studley. >> here. >> commissioner hur? >> here. >> and i would like to introduce our newest commissioner, brett andrews welcome. >> thank you. >> brett, perhaps you would like to introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about yourself. >> sure. so i have been here in san francisco for ten years. and i have been the executive director of positive resource center, at the mental health organization that provides benefits counseling and employment services. i have been active in the community at many different levels and i am just looking forward to participating in the ethics commission. over the years of having conversation around this type of work, what is very clear is that there is a lot of interest, and a lot of passion and a lot of knowledge. as i have talked to the commissioners and advocates it is important that we have respectful engagement and i suspect to be a bridge in that regard and i look forward to participating with the staff and the co

so those raise questions of ethics. you cannot think about modern market than their role without thinking about the myriad of goods that markets produce. >>host: one of the things they do write about is prostitution. should that be for sale? >>guest: i don't have an easy way to enter this i think it is more complicated what i try to do in my book is take intuitive reactions from the market's most people react differently even if they think it should be legal they think there is something different about selling sex than apples or cars or organs or about selling health care. selling health care. i see if there are features of the markets that concern us if there is a way to why we react differently. so i developed a theory theory, there are four different dimensions that i argued give rise and not all markets worry is in the same way. and they're all not happy in their own way. i have the four dimensions that are similar so to think about prostitution that is important that the way that exist in our society especially wi

don't call ethics first." >> thompson: so even though the company had an ethics hotline, what you're telling me is your bosses said, "don't call the ethics hotline." >> well, in meetings and stuff, they were like, "oh, you can always call ethics," but when it came down to you calling ethics and they found out you called ethics, it was a big deal, because they were mad. >> thompson: a big deal in a not good way. >> no, not a good way. >> thompson: eventually, emeritus fired jenny hitt. >> thompson: so the company says, "you made a medication error, that's why we fired you." >> yeah. >> thompson: you don't buy that. >> i don't buy it. >> thompson: what do you think the real reason is? >> because i was raising too much trouble. i was calling ethics and corporate and i was even talking to family members, like, "hey, your mom and dad aren't getting this, you know, you need to get them out." and they didn't like that. >> thompson: even as hitt and nurse kasuba were telling emeritus the staff couldn't handle the workload, the company was trying to get more seniors in the building. melissa g

so "ethical chic" set out to analyze six companies and see if it is so.s is a slight of the cable of content which you can't read. so i made a slide. this is not from the book the the book has no illustrations. i may dislike to showing you the six companies that "ethical chic" covers. and they are times of maine, in berlin, starbucks, apple, trader joe's and american apparel. this book looks at how they operate, what customers and actors say about them, why they're viewed as ethical and cool, what they do to try to achieve these images and whether they deserve those reputations. so the one that i'm going to focus on and mention something that the author covers is trader joe's. no one loves grocery shopping but people seem to love trader joe's and will travel great distances to shop at one. i live in a state, vermont, where there are no trader joe's, but i am a trader joe's customer, i have to admit, and i travel the three states that surround vermont so i can get to those stores. so how does trader joe's different from typical grocery stores? well, they s

i believe that that is the sort of the problems with the ethics commission here, is sort of that, that is what you are tasked with. and otherwise, i don't know how, how this is could be resolved if the city attorney says one thing and the task force says another without the ethics commission resolving that determination, and i don't know how the ethics commission could perform its duties. >> so is the consequence of that we should be carrying out the kind of inquiry about the balance of this information and the public expectation about whether it will be shared verses the public interest expressed strongly here in san francisco about the public's access to the information? >> if that is it, i really would like a rest room break before we do that. >> i think that true, i don't know it as a joke, i think that if we think that we should make an independent determination about the balancing of those factors then, i want to go and read these cases. and then i usually, when i have to do that i have somebody give me a memo and a judge who has to do that has time to do the research or has it c

. >>> maim funding for "religion & ethics" is provided by the lilian endowment, and dedicated to the founders in religion, community development and education. additional funding also provided by mutual of america. designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. and the corporation for public broadcasting. >>> welcome. i'm bob abernethy. it's good to have you with us. muslims around the world this week began their month-long observance of ramadan, when they fast from sunrise to sunset. in egypt, the holiday falls amid continued unrest after the military's removal from power of former president mohamed morsi. morsi's political party, the muslim brotherhood said it will not cooperate with the interim government and vowed to continue protesting. tensions were particularly high after the military fired on brotherhood protesters, killing more than 50 people. one of the country's top muslim clerics called for an end to bloodshed and warned both sides against dragging the country into civil war. i am now joined by kate seelye, senior

active in the community at many different levels and i am just looking forward to participating in the ethics commission. over the years of having conversation around this type of work, what is very clear is that there is a lot of interest, and a lot of passion and a lot of knowledge. as i have talked to the commissioners and advocates it is important that we have respectful engagement and i suspect to be a bridge in that regard and i look forward to participating with the staff and the commission and the community >> we are looking forward as well. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> now any public comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda? >> commissioners, ray hartz director of san francisco open government. i would much rather be home reading a good book and i am sure that you would rather i be anywhere else do anything else than here. i am going to talk tonight about the fact that although i am some what in some people's minds intemp erate and aggressive or whatever you want to call it. i have good reasons for doing so and i would like to spend this time talking

he went to the ethical culture school. shaped the way, an obligation to american life particularly because part of this outlook that was spread by the ethical culture society including by school, was a certain conception of america as the land of the free, the land that preserve individual liberties and oppenheimer grew up believing he never once abandoned that belief and it was central to the ethical culture society but it was in the americas that one could be what one was supposed to be, one could fulfil one's potential. oppenheimer grew up in a wealthy family. his mother was an artist, with very great taste in art and a quiet paintings which became immensely valuable. he bought renuarts, picasso, than go, and these were on the wall of oppenheimer's childhood home. when his brother frank oppenheimer later in life lost his job because he was a communist, frank had only to sell one of these paintings to provide for himself and his family in great style for the rest of his life. a very wealthy family, they lacked for nothin

>> commissioner the matter will be moved to september and the ethics commission will go forward and no continuances will be granted for either side unless they are showing for good cause for the continuance. >> seconded by commissioner hur. >> call the question. all in favor? >> aye. >> the motion passes. >> the next item. >> okay. again you have the informational memo in front of you. and i would just point out that early they are year in february, the commissioner voted unanimously that this particular type of practice of a pending written statements to the end of the minutes is acceptable prior to that in 2011, the commissioner reached the same conclusion. and it is continues to be the advice of the city attorney that is an effective practice. >> we would like to hear from the complainant? mr. ray hartz. >> i assume that i have ten minutes. >> ray hartz san francisco open government what changed from the time that this was heard back in february? for the benefit of the commissioner who was not here, this is what we are talking about, section 67.16 of the minutes and any person speak

for anybody, let alone try and pursue something like a case against a number of supervisors at the ethic's commission. so i think there should be some respect for who she is and what she has done and just to give her a reasonable chance as i said, ask her when she would like to have the hearing, and if you have guidelines that you want to insist on, lay those out and if there are options you might also lay those out as well. thanks. >> any further public comment? >> shall we call the question? >> do we need to amend the motion as stated by commissioner hur? >> i am still? favor of giving her an opportunity to come forth, with evidence explaining why she can't appear. i think having it in the minutes, having it along with issuing a formal order to show cause is worth while. but, it is all yours. >> on further reflection and going back to my original comment of balancing this complainant request for us not to consider it against the delay, i actually would like to withdraw my second to the motion. my suggestion to the movement and the others that we might just say to be schedule between now

the second ethical point is i hope most of you agree with this. i do not believe that anybody should be punished simply for what we put into our own bodies absent harm to others. nobody deserves to be punished for what we put in our bodies absent harm to others. hurt somebody, yes and not tell me your addiction was the excuse. we need to be regarded as sovereign over our minds and bodies. the criminal law should not be treating anyone as a criminal for what we put in here. when one is trying to pursue a particular public health or public safety objective, reducing the harm of drugs or whatever it might be. and when you have powerful evidence that a non-course of system can accomplish that public safety health objective as well or better than a course of system, when the portugal- like object of can accomplish that for better or lower cost, it is a matter of good public policy and a matter of ethics and morality. those three key moral points are fundamental in the state in this country. thank you. >> in closing the program, i want to thank all of y

perez acted ethically and appropriately at all times. so i want to go through this, because it's important to set the record straight from these kind of phony eatles that have been made by some here about mr. perez. the magner case was a case involving the fair housing act. in 2011 the supreme court granted certiorari to consider whether that act permits a disparate impact claim. that's a claim challenging actions that are not intentionally discriminatory but, in essence, and effect have a discriminatory effect. it is called the disparate impact claim of the case involved an unusual set of facts. instead of minorities and low-income persons using the fair housing act to challenge improper lending practices or zoning laws or real estate prayings, as is typical with the case with most fair housing act litigation, this specific case involved slum lords. not low-income renters or people being taken advantage of. this case involved slum lords in st. paul, using the fair housing act, to challenge the city's efforts to better enforce their hous

they say that force feeding is in direct violation of the core ethical values of the medical professionthey say doctors shouldn't participate in it. essentially the largest association of doctors in the country says that it is not possible for a doctor to act ethically as a doctor if you are also administering forced feeding at the direction of the government. another letter was sent to president obama by a group of over 150 doctors arguing that these military doctors at guantanamo bay are being put into a serious conflict of interest, essentially, with these orders to force feed the hunger strikers. they're asking that the prisoners receive independent medical assistance from medical professionals who do not have to take orders. for these medical professionals, what is happening at guantanamo bay twice a day, the forced feeding of prisoners protesting their own detention, it runs counter to ethics inherent to the medical profession. as this hunger strike continues, that sort of pressure from the medical profession continues to build along with it. and while the federal court ruling yes

even after two letters from the ethics commission requested a response. when the mayor sends a message that you're stealing money from public assets the rules don't apply, he is attacking the social covenant that are committees exist based on trust and mutual honesty and of course the lies cost more than the money and having me arrested doesn't solve anything. thank you. >> thank you. next shift next speaker. >> good evening supervisors. my 2 min. talk is to include elder abuse. target individuals in america who are women and are surviving. noise pollution on franklin avenue, and architectural design of the new buildings. i am betty tillman, retired unified school district. my older son is a firefighter. my youngest son who is 37 years old was born in kaiser. we invest a talk at wallenberg high school. i'm 60 years old. i moved into 701 golden gate near don rogers

even after two letters from the ethics commission requested a response. when the mayor sends a message that you're stealing money from public assets the rules don't apply, he is attacking the social covenant that are committees exist based on trust and mutual honesty and of course the lies cost more than the money and having me arrested doesn't solve anything. thank you. >> thank you. next shift next speaker. >> good evening supervisors. my 2 min. talk

professor of ethics in society and philosophy here at stanford and has written a book.hy some things should not be for sale. the moral limits of markets. professor satz. why is the philosophy professor writing about economics. >> good question. economics involved a lot of different dimensions. i think that it was glad stone that said that budgets are not matters of arithmatic but our values and economics inhe haveityably raises questions about ethics and the most obvious questions of ethics concern the legitimacy and the justice of distribution that the market produces. there are other kinds of questions too. so there are questions for example about should you be able to sell your kidney like you sell an apple? >> -- what should we think of markets and toxic waste? child labor markets. or markets next access to information. how should we think about those markets? are they different in kind? are sex markets different in kind than automobile markets? a role of social life and the goods and some bads that the markets produce. you write about prostitution. should that be f

"ethic chic" asks the question is a possible to be trendy and socially responsible to be trusted and loved? yes there are few it that like apple and trader joe's are all of those. so it set out to analyze six companies to see if it is so. this is the slide of the table of contents which you cannot reason i made us slide in the book has the illustrations i made this to show you the six companies that "ethic chic" covers tom's of maine, and starbucks, apple, a trader joe's in america apparel pelican how to operate what customers and activists say about them and why they're viewed as ethical or cool and what they do to achieve these images and if they deserve the reputation. the one that i will focus on to mention that the author mentions is trader joe's. people love to seem to lew love to travel or shop bad trader joe's i was in a state where there are no trader joe's but i am a customer i have to a demand and i travel to the three states that surround vermont so i can get to those stores. so how does it differ from a typical grocery store? they specialize in unusual food that is not a

but is it ethical? tonight, tony kovaleski digs into michael peevey's travel records. >> by all indications, you're paying him to travel the world. we want to know, is he selling access to one of the most powerful positions in california? >> you have a job to do. it's pathetic, what you're doing. >> reporter: you might remember michael peevey. what's the message you sent coming here to napa than going to speak to the senate? >> you're very antagonistic. >> reporter: he wasn't very fond of us after we found him at a day-long trip at a napa resort and winery. tony covelekovaleski. you have a moment? and he wasn't happy to see his receiving an award, three years after the san bruno explosion. will you answer my questions, sir? >> i find you extremely insulting. >> reporter: how will the president of the public utilities commission respond to the questions uncovered in these documents? records filed with the state show since 2007, michael peevey has accepted more than $165,000 in gifts and free travel. in f

king. >> the interesting thing we can go back to max vapors the protestant ethic.in which vapors account of a certain kind of pure tannism, there is a direct relationship between the blow of god's grace and material wealth and gain. >> right. >> so it's deeply engrained in the very american fabric of the religious imagination. that's the first thing we need to say. about this question around sexuality, though, brother mark, there's a sense in which we need to be very careful not to frame the discussion of sexual desire by aberration. >> right. >> and it seems every time we talk about sexuality within the church it's a scandal that precipitates the conversation. and when we do that, i think we in interesting sorts of ways further handicap how we talk about the fact that god created us in interesting sorts of ways as sexual beings. >> now, i know -- if we keep talking about people -- [ overlapping speakers >> let me ask, is that a legitimate perspective to have? >> i think it's titillating. you can't expect the church to have the same approach to the very important m

it violates our ethical guidelines as physicians to in fact participate in that.against the wishes of the detainee or the patient. >> i want to ask you about this idea of kind of the ethical guidelines. because on the one hand, there's the medical doctors associated with it. our own president has suggested that this goes against the ethical position of the country. i want to listen to the president saying, is this really the kind of country we want to have? let's take a moment. >> today, i once again call on congress to lift the restrictions on detainee transfers from gitmo. i have asked -- [ applause ] i have asked the department of defense to designate a cite in the united states where we can hold military commissions. i'm appointing a new senior envoy at the state department and defense department, whose soul responsibility will be to achieve the transfer of detainees to third countries. i am lifting the moratorium on detainee transfers to yemen so we can review them on a case-by-case basis. look at the current situation, where we are force-feeding detainees wh

how has what you witnessed and documented as an artist affected your sense of ethics? have you seen lines you would not cross? have you come to believe a lot of lines are very mobile? >> guest: good question. at tukwila as a nonfiction writer your goal is not to screw anybody, not to write a story that affects people negatively without informing them to some degree the direction you are going. i try to write as true a story as i can but i know about my process. i right thrillers that happen to be true. all the facts are correct. some of the dialogue is recreated. there are journalists to do not like the way i write. the ethical things, someone's real life you have to be honest and truthful and not screw them over. also i am learning a lot about money. a lot of these people willing to do a lot of crazy things for money and i always ask what are you willing to do for money and this story one question i asked for a lot is how long would you be willing to go to jail for $30 million? someone said you have $30 million that have to go to federal prison for a year. that is wha

so it seems it comes down to two things: ethics and character. - well, don't pooh-pooh those things off right away. they're fundamental. that is, what do you believe in, what's important to you? and, how do you look at the role of leadership? is it a job that you're aspiring to, or is it a service to others? and i think those two categories are kind of the foundation for any kind of leadership, whether it's in business or politics. - who do you most admire in terms of an examplar of the best principles of leadership? - this is - he just turned 95 this week, so it's important to say this - nelson mandela. but having said that, like abraham lincoln, it's hard to get behind the image and the notion of martyrdom, or the notion of being the patriot there. but even behind all that is a man of integrity. he called the island that he spent 27 years on "the university," where he became a human being. and i think mandela proved the point that he was there to lead other people, and he proved that his first year he was elected president. you know what he said that first year? "i will not run for th