ethics officer

The e-disclosure system currently does not automatically flag discrepancies between this year's financial disclosures and last year's disclosures; verification depends on ethics officers or Public Service Commission officials manually reviewing records.

“the system does not do is flag discrepancies between this year's disclosure and last year's disclosure”

Once an official leaves the department, the jurisdiction of the ethics officer ends, meaning ongoing investigations can be evaded by moving to another part of government.

“Once an official leaves the department, the jurisdiction of the ethics officer ends, meaning that an ongoing investigation can simply be evaded by moving to another part of government. This is not theoretical. This does happen.”