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Our Views: Georgia's watchdog needs some teeth
Next director of state ethics agency needs to clarify laws, boost effort to enforce them
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Is there hope that Georgia’s Ethics Commission can overcome its shady past and actually, you know, enforce ethics? We remain hopeful yet also skeptical based on the recent past. Last week, four finalists were announced for the job of director for an agency charged with enforcing the state’s laws against misuse of public and campaign money and other rule violations by government officials.