Niles experiments with an elected ethics board

Voters in Niles will elect members of their ethics board on April 4th – which may be the first of its kind in Illinois. 

RFI Executive Director Alisa Kaplan was interviewed by the Chicago Tribune about what an effective ethics board looks like: “[They have to have] the skills and experience to conduct investigations. They have to be impartial. They have to have key elements of independence, whether that’s the ability to publish reports without asking the people that they oversee or in some cases, even some types of enforcement like imposing fines.”

Read the article here.