Should the state investigate questionable behavior by local government officials?
Professor Paula A. Franzese, Seton Hall Law.
TRENTON — A Senate committee Thursday voted 5-0 to dissolve local and county ethics boards and turn the responsibility of investigating the questionable behavior of any government official to the State Ethic Commission. The bill scraps local ethics boards that are “a hoge-podge” in many communities because they are not active or do not exist, said…
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