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Fulton proposal would replace Board of Ethics with independent hearing officers

The proposed ordinance also calls for an ethics administrator and provisions governing hearings, sanctions and judicial review.

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Editorial illustration derived from a courthouse photograph, with graphic treatment emphasizing tall stone columns, rows of blue windows and an ornate cornice; a leafy tree overlaps the right edge and scaffolding lines the bottom.
City context: Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, photographed March 23, 2019. Editorial illustration. The image provides historical civic context, not a depiction of the proposed hearing-officer system.Editorial illustration · Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States

A proposal on Fulton County's Sept. 16 agenda would abolish the county Board of Ethics and replace it with an independent hearing officer system.

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Item 26-0602 also calls for an ethics administrator and provisions covering advisory opinions, filing limitations, hearings, sanctions, enforcement and judicial review. The agenda requests approval of the ordinance; it does not record its adoption.

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