As Session Starts, Legislators and Advocates Push Overhaul of State Ethics Enforcement (Gotham Gazette)
Gotham Gazette, January 9, 2019
As Session Starts, Legislators and Advocates Push Overhaul of State Ethics Enforcement
“As the state Legislature returns to session on Wednesday with Democrats in control of both chambers for the first time in a decade, State Senator Liz Krueger of Manhattan and Assemblymember Robert Carroll from Brooklyn are set to introduce a resolution that would amend the state constitution, adding new provisions to prevent and combat public corruption….’I don’t think that current model is working and I think we need to fix that…It’s just not designed to do its job,’ Krueger said of JCOPE in a December interview. She and Carroll were joined at the state Capitol building on Tuesday by representatives of groups including Common Cause New York, Reinvent Albany, the League of Women Voters of the State of New York, the New York Public Interest Research Group, the New York City Bar Association, as well as a few legislators, such as Senator Jen Metzger and Assemblymembers Richard Gottfried and Carrie Woerner.”
