>> city attorney, that's the question that the ethics commission will be determined. the law at issue is the statement of incompatible activities, which is the department by department policy, but that policy has the force of law so the ethics commission could decide you -- that the commissioner received this business opportunity as the moment she invested in the funds for gmo and that would be a violation of the law. that would be a violation of our local campaign and governmental can you be the code. >> so if she's found by the ethics commission to have broken the law, does that present a cause for her to be removed and the process would entail that the mayor would actually need to take action to remove her, correct? >> the mayor could remove his appointees, including ms. jordan, or for no cause. if the ethics commission finds a violation and imposes a penalty, it's within the mayor's discussion whether he'd want to remove her in that circumstance. it wouldn't be required that he remove her from office. p >> for clarity's sake, i'd like to know when the hearing possi

one is a person can ask for advice, a public request for advice from the ethics commission. they then draft a public resfons saying here's what your statement of incompatible activities means. that's a public process. when mr. huish forwarded the complaint to the ethics commission he instigated a confidential process of ethic enforcement action. i don't know how long that process may take, but at this point it's confidential so i don't know where it stand and i understand the board -- >> it is possible that the ethics commission could decide either way depending on their interpretation of that. >> that's right. there's an matter of ethics. they could dismiss it, preach a settlement where she could pay monetary penalties, or hold a public hearing leading to a determination. >> what is the amount of the penalties here?charter and local ethics law, the ethics commission has the ability to impose fines for up to $5000 for each violation. it takes into account all sorts of factors in determining the penalty they apply. >> besides the specific ethical requirements that apply to thi

kim as the presenting person for this item. item 4 for ethics in the city. mr. saint croix, are you going to present for this item? >> good morning. i just have some brief updates on the five items we were asked to follow up on. as to recommendation 2, the commission endorsed the recommendation. as to recommendation 11 there is a pending california supreme court case that will affect such policies. the commission is waiting for the resolution of this case to inform any potential action. as to recommendation 16 the commission is planning a policy discussion about the ethics of the possible need of additional disclosure requirements for donations for government travel and government travel recording. it will then send knee proposed changes to the board of supervisors. as to recommendation 18, the commission is not a respon dant. and finally as to recommendation 21 the commission [inaudible] investigator and will work appropriately with the mayor and board on the next budget. >> good morning. i was on the grand jury and wrote the report that's sub of this hearing.

amend this to say that we urge the sunshine task force ethics commission and the city attorney to grade preservation policies for emails and text messages and those rules should be informed by the future ruling of the california supreme court whether public officials use personal devices and subject to disclosure. since that ruling is not necessarily performed yet we want to make sure that whatever policy we have coming forward will align with the california supreme court. the original response that the policy changes are beyond the jurisdiction of the board, but that's not exactly correct. the board is free to make amendments to chapter eight of the ad min code which covers record retention policies so i wanted to see that we played a role to request that these entities -- the sunshine task force and the commission and the city attorney provide us with some preservation policy recommendations for our consideration. page four lines 22, page five line four recommendation number 16. amend this to say that we support requiring additional transparency regarding gifts of travel without creat

speaker: welcome to the regular meeting of the san francisco ethics commission. we'll begin by taking the role. vice chair reanne >> present. speaker: andrews. speaker: pren. speaker: hur. hayon. speaker: here. speaker: ken. speaker: here. keane. speaker: here. speaker: first is agenda -- speaker: i attended a task force meeting on august 6. at that meeting, a very unpre-possessing young man played a tape recording of your ethics commission meeting. featured in that audio recording was primarily your commission keane praising this young man because according to keane, hundreds he has prosecuted an ethics complaint and according to mr. keane, quote, hundreds of people in the same situation would have given up. really? or the obstacles to a successful commission complaint so high that a fraction of 1% can expect success? does mr. keane tell his business associates, and his neighbors, i'm on the ethics commission. it's dysfunctional for, you know, less all -- less than 1% of the population, i'm in charge. a very strange thing to be proud of. don't we want to live in

first of all, in terms of the ethics violation, did she accept a business ovp. opportunity. clearly she accepted a business opportunity and continues to do so and she and the investors she represents continue to be able to be leverage the amounts of money invested by the pension board for her own an her clients' benefit. i'm not able to do that, she is able to do that. now, whether or not this is technically a violation, to me does not matter. i believe that the board these to be held to a very high standard, including the standard of the appearance of a conflict. as a federal employee we were all admonished that we have a look at the appearance of the conflict as well as the conflict, that otherwise we would not be able to generate any kind of trust from the public and i believe city workers, whether in the charter or not, needs to be able to be held to that standard as well, especially with the amount of money on the table. my second point is with respect to wendy paskin-jordan is in terms of the excellent definition we were given of a fiduciary is to put the interest of th

there's no contract until the ethics committee says there is. he second novel is a parody of washington d.c. tentatively titled big guns. it is the gun debate and ss in two places. the first premise is that a very comes server to house of representatives and the u.s. senate with the republican majority passes a law that mandates that every american under the logical primus that if obamacare with health insurance if you require to have health insurance company should be required to have life insurance. and that is a gun. so is the debate inside the congress -- in fact, that is part of the debate because there's an amendment that allows for presidential waivers of the gun ownership requirement for children under the age of seven and people in the do not fly list. you'd be surprised what happens to that debate. once you say children under seven should be required to five, four, three. before you know it -- before you know it, no one will be required to own a gun. you've got this congress and washington that the president will sign requiring every am

and that goes to the ethics committee. tee would be embarrassed into doing something about it. generally, in the house, they have moved slowly about some of these things. the senate, and again, i was involved with this during the period of reform with senator obama. obama pushed it very hard. he got 36 votes in the senate. for one of these kinds of institutions in the senate. they do not have it. the ethics committee in the senate is really somewhat morebunned in my opinion. it's not working very well. if you look at many other reforms in the readings there's a reference to an aba handbook on lobbying reform. and sandler will talk to you a little bit about the law there. if you want to drill down more and get it, these are the top lines. but when obama came into office the first executive order that he had as i mentioned before was that he -- very controversial -- he stopped the revolving door into government as well as out of government. out of government was there. he was reestablishing that rule. but in the government me

the ethics commission meets once a month, in the past, ethics commission has met, sort of on a special meeting basis to deal with legislative changes like that, but to the order of two to four months is realistic. as to what would be necessary for the people out there that needs to compile with this stuff, it would need to be in place by early august, but it will be better to have it in place a couple of months before that. speaker: yes, the next meeting into february would probably be -- it would still be a close call, let's say that. speaker: okay. speaker: that's helpful. speaker: if we continue and pick it up at the last minute at the next meeting, i was thinking that would be our last chance to really get it in and feel good about the timeline, even the projected timeline we may build in. speaker: this would be in place in a fair timeline to the effected parties. i think you would need to get something out at next month's meeting. speaker: i mean, is it a thing where our chances are better if we get it out now than if we get out next meeting -- speaker: it's hard to say because it

are there any ought occupancy requirements for you as the commission is and the ethics, do you have to be in the city owned the building building? >> i don't think the city would give us the rent to move to a private property when the city space available. >> got it. then i was just thinking probably for own edification, just to see it's a bit of a strategic plan that would come to us in the form of an organizational chart. i think it would be great to see what it would look like, your proposed work shot chart as it relates to the increase, the requested a little over $300,000 just to see where you're headed in terms of staffing and where you're putting your resources >> okay. i just want point out we i saw the city property we still pay rent. >> oh yes. i figured you guys want to know if you're comparing >> even asked for public comment. >> we did get this e-mail from disturbed bush in which he raises some questions. i just wonder did you look at that and give any consideration for example going through the grand jury report where we might have agreed with their recommendation, but sa

grossman and that is, whenever someone files a complaint with the ethics, they are supposed to receive under the charter notification back that the command had been received. then it gets turned over to the pa or city attorney, they are to be notified if it's been returned and it is been returned is the commissioner going to take up and what are the reasons. our investigation showed those notifications are not taking place. i think they're important part of not only transparency but also public confidence in the work of the commission. >> thank you thank you. >> the next item on the agenda -- oh, sorry. is there a motion to approve the budget request? all in favor say aye. opposed? the motion passes. next item on the agenda is a discussion on possible action regarding a complaint received or initiated by the ethics commission. cost possible close assessment of the comments on item number six is there a -- on-site >> can you identify whether the complaint involves campaign funding or lobbying or conflict of interest this is in general terms what category does the complaint come under? w

when the task force referred the matter to the ethics commission, it was mr. sancrow who was named as a respondent and that's because of the decision on whether to turnover the documents was mr. sancrow. the body of which you're apart, oversees the staff and can set policies, but the commission has the authority to conduct its day-to-day operations, and i think part of that is, as here, if their sancrow is sued, i think he can defend himself without having to seek the opinion or seek the approval of the overseeing commission. speaker: do you think it was a good idea that mr. sancrow did not at least inform the commission and seek the approval of the commission before starting and getting involved in such a major piece of litigation? aside from anything that might be your opinion relating to whether he can do this independently and the staff has some sort of independent power to do these things, do you think it might have been a good idea that he told us this was going on and sought out our permission to do this? speaker: i'm happy provide legal advice to the co

that's now one of the items cited in an ethics complaint filed against the prosecutors in the case. robert mccullough, kathy lizade are now facing an ethics complaint filed by the missouri supreme court alleging they violated professional rules of conduct by presenting an outdate daited statute towards the beginning of the grand jury proceedings. the naacp legal defense fund has also used the fact that the prosecutors used the wrong unconstitutional deadly force law to ask a missouri judge to convene a new grand jury and appoint a special prosecutor in the case. joining me now in an exclusive interview is christie griffin, founder of the ethics project. she filed the complaint against the prosecutors in the darren wilson case. also joining me is the director of the naacp legal defense fund. christie griffin, what are the essential points of your ethics complaint? >> the essential points of the ethics complaint is that robert mccullough of the st. louis county prosecuting attorney and the assistant prosecuting attorneys engaged in a number of what we consider to be unethical conduct b

the ethics rules, i know you touched on to some extent in the prior session. revolving door, again, professor therber talked about some of the reforms it's made in the 2007 law, but we'll get into the substance. and then just quickly some of the self-imposed or voluntarily implemented restrictions that the obama administration placed relating to lobbyists. so in terms of understanding how the lobbying disclosure act works, it's a little bit weird because the registration is done by an organization or by a firm a lobbying firm or law firm, but it's triggered in the first instance by an activity by an individual employee of either an organization like a nonprofit organization, trade association or a lobbying firm, of course, could be public relations firm lobbying firm or law firm. and basically, an individual becomes a lobbyist if that individual makes two or more lobbying contacts on behalf of his or her organization if she's in-house. or for a particular client. if this is for -- if we're talking about an employee of a lobbying firm or a law firm. and in addi

secondly, it's a question if particularly for referencing the ethics commission website will have a lot of not only just a campaign information but just the graphics. you know, we staff and in my experience have not found a lot of value in knowing how much the cost of that single mailer is. the value is knowing how much as a general matter a particular entity is spending. as opposed to on the one mailer that you get that's the pile like that. so, in the interest of making a standardized disclaimer, we said would just take out that is was the whole notice to voters. requirements. >> am i correct that, what you're doing oh, in terms of the type font, you're making the state requirement to be consistent whether san francisco requirement to be consistent with the state? >> we are actually for members and for like small fires that sort of thing. were actually augmenting it a little bit because on the -- at the state level as 10 point font which is pretty -- is what it is. not that big. right now, for miller's ours is fort wayne 14 point font and you can see in exhibit it ends up taking a pre

>> okay. >> thank you. >> any other questions or comments on the ethics violation? item 54 meetings, comments is there a motion to adjourn? >> some of >> second >> all in favor aye oppose? hearing on, meeting is adjourned. [gavel] to be. >> hi, i'm average i'm a personal analyst that the human resources examining and recruitment unit and suffix i started my career as a san francisco state university and got my bachelors in psyched and orientational psyche if they had we have a great relationship that the san francisco unified school district i exploded for american people interim shopping mall and become eligible for a permeate job. >> okay. perfect. >> i love working for our human resources services because of the agriculture we're laid-back with a professional mindset although human resources is a challenge we're light a hearted started as a intern guided through the process eventually one day a a deputy director or staying with the puc is where i love it. >> good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco land use & economic development committee i'm scott wiener

expenditures saying vote for, vote against these particular candidates, has to file a report with the ethics commission to disclose that spending. the spendings in the elections happen after labor day, so within the 90 days. particularly with mailings, the overlap is significant, and i know having been in the compliance sector for a while, it's very confusing. and the xafrl we give is of a mailing, if you do a mass mailing, let's, say of $5,000 which is what one ever these things would cost, you have numerous state and local filing requirements that you have to worry about complying with. and with parties that have money, that compliance is usually what happens. what we see though, is that the less sophisticated parties, the parties with less money want to fail the law, and we end up -- it ends up as a discouragement really for these groups. so in the effort of sort of stream lining simplifying and in a way that will benefit all who are involved in the political process, we have proposed basically requiring having three requirements and it's appendix c is what we're trying to do. and it's th

so ethically... >> we call that the comedy test. do you agree with me, good, you are competent. if you disagree, you are not competent. [ laughs ] >> how far can a doctor go etedingly against a -- ethically against a patient's wishes. >> one thought is how old is the patient. the second issue is what is the regions, some have religious objections some want to pursue alternative medicine. she's basically saying i don't want to go through this. we come back to that. that may not be a moving reason. it's never fun going through what the doctors do, for her it's a couple of months, not a lift of intervention. and we think okay, are we psych logic asound or together. she appears to be in this case. we've been looking at that. lastly, does it work. >> let's go down some of these. it's a grey line. >> this is a close call case. close call. >> doctors in the state have all sorts of ethical obligations including to remove children from an abusive situation or anything that may cause them harm. does this qualify under that rule? >> ethically it does, because they say the mum is not looking

forced into chemo - the legal and medical ethics in the case of a 17-year-old girl who refused cancer. and glen close's family struggles with mental illness. i'm antonio mora, welcome to "consider this". those stories and more ahead. >> the fbi revealed a plot by a capital. >> meanwhile al qaeda in the arabian peninsula said it ordered, planned and funded attacks in paris. >> al qaeda in yemen is considering the most lethal terrorist organization. >> yemen is almost a failed state. the new afghanistan. >> radicalization was nothing like in france. >> the united states does not have a large disgruntled radicalized muslim community. >> changes to find individuals on the fridge gs of the communicate -- fringes of the communicate i why. >> a court ruled a teenager must under go chemotherapy. >> efforts to rebuild in haiti are hampered by corruption. >> the political situation is as it was yesterday - chaos. >> glen close and her sister tell their story about the struggle with mental illness. >> the fact that she's here is a testament of her strength >>> we begin with allegations of a thre

but those companies that become the research based pharmaceutical industry known as the ethical drug manufacturer. they all made effectively the same drug they guarantee to make the drugs ethically and advertise responsibly to tell you what was in the bottle its not leader until the 20th century the american system developed a way the research laboratory becomes important and and the patent to protect its molecule so the emergence that was a burst of innovative pharmaceuticals c.c. that developed in the '60s or '70s soul opening of generic competition. >> host: what are the patmos? -- patent laws? >> they are not that different but they have a 17 your protection that could be extended at 20 years and during that time part of the bargain that is made that the innovator discloses but they are granted a monopoly as a reward for innovation. but they generate a certain type of monopoly and have been since the wake of those this pharmaceutical companies that have developed these drugs to give them brand names began to extend the monopoly into trademarks. said then that they have very highly

thank you for proudly trumpeting our heritage i'm sure you're aware of this board is committed to the ethic studies so we look forward to having a successful report there thank you (clapping.) i wanted to close by recognizing going georgia williams who is active in the indian education program who invite me to a family night and come to our opening so, please invite the board members to our next meeting. >> the next item is item f public comment on content items there are - let's see item g is consent calendar i need a month to month for the consent calendar thank you any items withdrawn or corrected by the instructor? and, yes we have a few corrections this evening all right. the first correction to page numbers page thirty a sticker entitled 2 f and b-6 and pages 3135 changed page 36 is from two g to 2 h and to one hundred 51 on page 68 amending one hundred 46 and 1411 k 16 2 one of 1 amending the k9 and 14 one one and finally to 2 one hundred 51 k 51 the name of consultants should be outside not see the attachments >> thank you any items removed by the board seeing none any items severed

what are the ethical decisions on who should be treated and who can reject it. art, good to see you. there's an old saying that you are considered sane until you disagree with the doctor. ethically... >> we call that a comedy test. do you agree with me you are competent. you disagree, you are not competent. >> how far can a doctor go etedicily against a patient's wishes. >> one issue is how old is the patient. she's 17 older, that gives her a different status to if she is five. second what are the reasons, some have religious objections some want to pursue alternative medicines, she's basically saying "i don't want to go through this." that may not be a moving reason. no one wants to go to the doctor and go through everything. it's never fun, for her it's a couple of months not like a life-time of intervention and we think okay are you psychologically sound. she appears to be and lastly - does it work. >> let's go down some of these. the bottom line is it's a grey line. >> this is a close-call case. >> doctors in the state have obligations including to remove chi

are the ethics of social media keeping up with the technology? >> when you start experimenting on people, you start manipulating their environment to see how they react, you're turning them into your lab rats. >> the outrage that greeted that particular experiment far outstripped its practical implications. >> why the controversy blew up at the time and in the way that it did is that we're not sure we trust facebook. >> reporter: there were tremors of ethical outrage when a major scientific journal revealed that the social media site facebook had conducted experiments, altering what customers see on their own pages. the outrage was voiced across all forms of media, both traditional ones and digital outlets like youtube. >> a lot of users somewhat understandably thought it was creepy that facebook was intentionally trying to manipulate their emotions. >> reporter: social media have grown so fast over the past few years, the biggest of them all, of course is facebook with 1.5 billion users worldwide, 130 million in this country. what it knows about

in addition, the international council of museum code of ethics, in the context of museum practices rather than the requirements of international legal conventions, points the very same direction. with respect to the acquisition of collections, section 2.5 provides the following -- collections of human remains and material of sacred significance should be acquired only if they can be housed securely and cared for respectfully. this must be a car was manner consistent with professional standards and the interests and beliefs of members of the community, ethnic, or religious groups from which the objects originated. where these are known. section 3.74.3 of the code contain identical provisions relating respectively to research, and to the exhibition of sensitive materials. let me interweave american federal repatriation legislation , the international conventions, and the code of effort -- code of ethics to distill them into a bottom line legal and ethical wholeness that has much to do with my own positioning of repatriation at the nmai. the nice 89 and 1990 act represented a massive shift i

i received permission to write the book from the ethics director, and there's evidence that there is act of discrimination against any member of the lbgt communities at large or members of the fire rescue department. >> so the fire fighters union has praised you for your decision. is this the final decision here? is there room for change her? >> there absolutely is no room. i made my decision and will take with it. definitely got get permission from me. he's created this controversy and while i respect mr. governor i don't talk about the more of the political issues than a matter of faith. he was not terminated because of his faith. he was terminated because he did not get appropriate approvals and he's a member of my cabinet who serves at the pleasure of the mayor. and so i made the decision that because of his poor decision-making and because of the way that he behaved during his suspension that i didn't want him to continue as a member of my senior leadership team representing my administration in a city that is so diverse and that is the home of dr. martin luther king. >> mayor k

an action item review and approval for the san francisco ethics commission 456 policy statement. >> board members the investment statement was last reviewed by you in early 2012 we'll have significant changes changed third partied administrator and india a rose option and in consideration of those changes staff and angle he's reviewed the statement the changes are the significant items and, of course we take advantage to move things around and streamlined and made it easier to read anglely is here to answer any questions you have. >> any questions of staff seeing none i'll open up for public comment on item 12 seeing none i'll close. >> i move we adapt the past recommendation. >> any discussion to the motion. >> yes, sir. >> you have the changes for the item you've presented do you have the final copy or only the changes. >> i have the changes we this is a lot easier to read we were hopefully that rather than giving two but we're happy to provide you with a clean copy. >> so i know what the after picture is all in favor, say i. >> i. >> passes unanimously thank you item 13 and item 13 a d

the governor knew mr. jones' relationship with legends. it's avoidable ethicalapse. >> reporter: but in calling the governor's office we were referred to a quote in the "wall street journal," quoting legends exec randy levine saying that new york officials at legends were the primary officials on the bid and that mr. jones wasn't involved. state ethics standards allow for gifts, even free trips from close personal friends. what is not clear and wisniewski says could be investigated is if they allow contracts for those friends as like what happened here. >>> coming up next on nbc 10 news at 6:00 a call for answers along the jersey shore. >> a vigil is just about to begin for a man killed when officers opened fire. the new details we just learned about this case. >>> plus the consequences of this brutalweather, how it's sending people to the hospital. >>> dangerous cold and the worst is yet to come. i'm tracking the temperatures and our next chance for winter weather. my exclusive nbc 10 first alert forecast. no question about that. but your erectile dysfunction -

la fire was part of the fire department that was my background i had to do everything on my own and in many cases in a world dominate by men and my parents led with a good work ethic and with the history integrity my grandfather was walter and banned from unions not able to get a job that was my grandparent is background a tough background that made my understand how to work and achieve and get ahead i ended up going to stanford i worked as a lifeguard on the beaches i did bay watch and paid my way through school i had a lot of student loans and went to law school and making an income of three or four thousand dollars a year i know ended up being housed in moderate income housing and had a lot of student loans went to law school and business school and worked in the investment area thirty years ago i retired to start the mature fund areas in wells fargo bank and moved up to a manager securities a tough firm so my background has been in investments and i've also served the community i've been on the board of planted parenthood and with the first fundraiser with sf general and numerous other boards when i had the opportunity to come into the retirement board i said

i didn't think the department of justice would stop five months before ethics stopped. er job and in doing so, they would understand that john ensign would help with the help of mike slanker, with the help of other people orchestrated me leaving. i never needed to look for a job, they created a job immediately for me to go to because john wanted me out of his staff. so he solicited the help of mike slanker to open up november inc. back in november to employ me. and he personally orchestrated what it would take in order to get me out and get me back on my feet. so when you talk about me soliciting john or looking to john for a job, none of those things are true. john orchestrated it all. john orchestrated all the relationships and he told me what to do. i think the mistake that i made was i didn't know my wife and i worked for him, our entire income was tied. i didn't know what to do. i had solicited the help of another senator. i had gone to him personally. i didn't know what to do except deal with what he was doing and hoping that at some point in time someone would ste