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Emeryville Needs An Ethics Commission

Your Signature Will Force the City Council to Be Accountable Under the Law

The City Council majority has shown us they cannot be trusted with being the sole arbiter for Emeryville’s Code of Ethics.  They were warned by the City Attorney and the City Manager to resist the temptation to politicize and weaponize the new law and that’s exactly what they have done.  They are using the Code of Ethics to go after political enemies while they leave themselves unaccountable and untouchable.   They have put themselves above the law.

They have censured and sanctioned the dissenter on the Council, Kalimah Priforce, but they refuse to investigate the violations of the Code by Council member Courtney Welch.  It is NOT the opinion of the Tattler that Ms Welch has violated the Code, the City Attorney (who wrote the law) says she violated it.  But they WILL NOT hold her to account.

The government that investigates itself will find they’ve done nothing wrong without independent oversight.  That’s what Emeryville now desperately needs: an independent ethics commission (like other cities).  The ethics commission will serve as a check and balance to City Council overreach.  This Council majority has shown itself to be too political to handle the kind of capability unchecked power gives them.  People of Emeryville and the surrounding community: Let’s check their power.

Please sign the petition to form an independent ethics commission to serve as a backstop for Emeryville’s Code of Ethics.  Sign and do your part to make Emeryville more democratic. 

Sign the petition HERE

 https://www.change.org/p/establish-public-ethics-oversight-in-emeryville-california