The City Council gave the thumbs up on a new set of guidelines that should help officials tackle corruption.
The city of Dallas approved new ethics rules last week. The changes lower the evidentiary standards for ethics complaints and add a Class C misdemeanor offense for leaking confidential information. People who worked on a council member’s most recent election campaign would need to disclose that fact at any private or public city meetings under the changes.
But Bevers said he had no interest in getting into minor disputes. “I do not want to be involved in any office that gets into ticky tack violations,” he said. “That’s not why we’re here.” He gave an example of someone showing up 10 minutes late to work every single day. You could probably make an ethics complaint out of that, he said, but it’s not one he’d be interested in pursuing. He said something like this could just be handled by the employees’ boss instead.
“A city of Dallas water truck began to merge in the lane at a fast speed,” the person wrote in their complaint. “I was immediately pushed over to the shoulder of the on ramp. At that time I was only a few feet away from going over the embankment.”
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