EDucation & Training

Coming Soon 2009 Citywide Ethics Workshops for City Employees and City Board Members If you want to schedule an ethics workshop for your office or board, call the Ethics Office at 404.330.6286

Ethics Training
The Ethics Office offers classroom training programs to educate city officials and employees about the city's ethical standards, how to comply with the Code of Ethics, and how to avoid the appearance of impropriety.  

• There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch - a three-hour workshop for employees on gratuities and conflicts of interest. Using case studies, the Ethics Officer presents a short vignette that raises an ethical question, leads a discussion in which participants examine the issue, and then explains how the issue was decided.
  
• Don't Get Conflicted Out - a one-hour presentation for new employees on gratuities, outside employment, and use of city property.  The aim is for employees to think critically about various situations so that they can identify and resolve conflicts of interest that arise in the workplace.
  
• Doing the Right Thing:  Both Reality and Appearance Matter - a two-hour workshop for citizens serving on city boards and commissions, as city representatives on other public boards, and as neighborhood planning unit officers.  The workshop covers gratuities, exceptions to the gift ban, conflicts of interest, how to recuse, doing business with the City, appearing before city agencies, fundraising and solicitations, and the one-year cooling off period. Participants should come away with an understanding of the ethical standards that apply to their service as volunteer city officials. 

• Mayor’s letter to all city employees  (.pdf)
• Wallet card  (.pdf)
• Integrity Matters brochure (.pdf)
• Integrity Line fact sheet (.pdf)