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Michigan Ranks Last In Laws On Ethics, Transparency


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LANSING — Michigan ranks last in a national study of state ethics and transparency laws and safeguards, set for release today,  partly due to its weak public records law and an absence of laws requiring personal financial disclosures by lawmakers and top state officials.

In all, 11 states received failing grades of F in the study, but Michigan's rating was last in the study by the Center for Public Integrity and Global Integrity, two nonprofit organizations that promote government transparency and ethics.

Michigan scored 50.5 points out of a possible 100. The other 10 states that received an F were: Wyoming, with 50.9; Delaware, with 55.5; South Dakota, with 55.9; Nevada, with 57.1; Pennsylvania, with 57.9; Oregon with 57.9; Maine, with 58.6; Kansas, with 58.6; Louisiana, with 58.8; and Oklahoma, with 59.

"What you see across the board is just a lack of some of those accountability and transparency laws and practices that some states have enacted," Nicholas Kusnetz, the project director, told the Free Press on Friday.

Michigan's worst--in-the-nation ranking doesn't mean Michigan is the most corrupt state. The score doesn't speak to the level of corruption in Michigan, since that's not what's being measured, Kusnetz said. Instead, the study looks at what laws are in place and how those laws are implemented, in order to assess the systems intended to prevent corruption and expose it when it does occur.

Michigan was ranked last in the nation for its ethics and transparency laws in a study of all 50 states released Monday.

 

http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2015/11/09/michigan-ranks-last-laws-ethics-transparency/75288210/

 

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The score doesn't speak to the level of corruption in Michigan, since that's not what's being measured, Kusnetz said. Instead, the study looks at what laws are in place and how those laws are implemented, in order to assess the systems intended to prevent corruption and expose it when it does occur.

 

I think we all know how laws are implemented in this state. :thumbsd::growl:

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