Good news!  The Ethics Commission is distributing “A Guide to the Ethics Law of Queen Anne’s County for County Employees, Officials and Citizens.”  It is available at our Ethics Matters website (www.ethicsmattersinc.org ) under DOCUMENTS, directly below the ethics code.  The Ethics Commission will be distributing this guide to all County employees and officials as well making it available at County libraries.  Hopefully, the County website will post this useful document before long.

Also available at the Ethics Matters website (www.ethicsmattersinc.org  ) under DOCUMENTS are the Ethics Commission’s information sheets about Conflicts of Interest, Financial Disclosure, and Gifts.

These documents, together with the Guide, help the Ethics Commissions meet its statutory obligation to inform and educate citizens regarding the purpose and implementation of the ethics law.  Ethics Matters congratulates the Ethics Commission on their publication, and we are pleased to help the Ethics Commission promote public understanding of the County ethics law by posting them on our website.

Further news regarding the QAC Ethics Commission:  Ethics Commission member Irving Pinder recently resigned from the Commission and has been replaced by the Rev. Nanese Hawthorne, who had been serving as an alternate.