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Business and Local Government: Prevention of Unethical Conduct
Anna Mueller and Jadranka Skorin-Kapov
Stony Brook University, USA
Volume 12: 2023 pp. 209-218: ABSTRACT
The case describes the developments of an ethics code observed in the local government of Suffolk County,
New York, USA. In Suffolk County, there is now a dedicated Board of Ethics Agency (“Board”) within the local
government to ensure that business operations and government operations run as ethically compliant as possible.
This Board was created in 2012 in order to follow compliance with a law that established a replacement for the
Ethics Commission (previously existing within Suffolk County) because this Ethics Commission had been involved
in a serious controversy. The former County Executive, Steve Levy, was found guilty of compromising the “integrity
of an ethics commission”. Suffolk County government prescribed various measures in order to ensure that the citizens
of Suffolk County were protected from business ethical violations. The Board also
preemptively created laws that discouraged businesses from acting unethically.
Keywords: ethics, local government, business ethics, Suffolk County Departments, Suffolk County Board of Ethics.
ARTICLE REF.: JBEE20-0CS1