All Posts Tagged With: "transparency and accountability"
Child Protective Services, OPR, and State Ombudsman Office
The first thing the universe presented me with last week was a call from a state senator’s aide, looking for input on how to effect external oversight for CPS. My response, of course, is to create a State Ombudsman office. With a little reminding, the senator remembered that our paths had crossed before, when I testified before the Senate Government Operations Committee against removing a level of appeal in the Office of Professional Regulation (OPR).
13Jul2009 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Vermont Child Protection Update
The Human Services and Judiciary Committees each developed bills that shifts the mode of operation more toward providing service to children and families in trouble, and away from the more corrections-oriented approach that has prevailed under the old laws.
31Mar2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Anti-Corruption and Open Society Forum Work in Mongolia
The Montsame News Agency in Mongolia carries this item today: Montsame Agency By an order of the Anti-Corruption Authority, the “Glob International” non-governmental organization has conducted a survey encompassing 121 state institutions, 185 officials and 189 state servants who are duty bound to offer state services, and 749 citizens. The results of the survey, funded [...]
26Mar2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Open records requests, sunshine laws in Missouri’s headlines, too…
STLtoday – Blunt turns over 3,000 pages of records ASSOCIATED PRESSJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Gov. Matt Blunt’s office has provided attorney general’s investigators with almost 3,000 pages of documents detailing open-records requests made by the media, his political opponents and citizens. But that information covers only a small part of what investigators appointed by Attorney [...]
25Mar2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
From The Rising Nepal: Promoting Ethics in Civil Service
There’s a very thoughtful editorial today on The Rising Nepal, Promoting Ethics in Civil Service. It’s far more than just a cheer leading piece for ethics. It presents an analysis that has both depth and breadth in its considerations of the issues in different types of organizations—ranging from social and academic associations to professional bureaucracy—and [...]
15Mar2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
I couldn’t have said it better…
I couldn’t have said it better, and actually I have been thinking about a post along these lines lately, so I’ll let the Philippines’ former Civil Service Commission chair say it for me: ABS-CBN Interactive A professional bureaucracy is the best defense against graft and corruption in government, former Civil Service Commission chair Karina David [...]
3Mar2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
A New Trend in Church Accountability
The AP reports today on several new graduate programs being offered by colleges and universities in church management. Masters’ programs have been launched at Duquesne University and Boston College, and Villanova University will start a program this summer. The programs will cover areas such as management of personnel, finances, and all aspects of church business. [...]
12Feb2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
