Yet more troubling events in Asheville have prompted renewed calls for the General Assembly to reconsider and pass House Bill 643 — bipartisan legislation intended to extend “whistleblower protection” to full-time certified law enforcement officers at both the city and county level. Forty-four officers of the Asheville Police Department (nearly a quarter of their force) […]
Public Corruption
Throwback Thursday: Ethics
Four years ago this week, former Democrat Speaker of the House Jim Black was released from federal prison after serving three years of a 63-month federal prison term for corruption charges. Interestingly, the requirement that state legislators comply with ethics laws is a fairly recent phenomenon. After the multi-year cascading corruption scandals that ensnared Mr. […]