Madigan trial sheds light on the need for ethics changes
The Center Square discusses the process surrounding ethics complaints; RFI Executive Director weighs in on the flaws in the present system:
“Right now, the situation is you basically have the fox watching the hen house … with legislators expected to oversee their fellow legislators, their friends, their colleagues, people they’ll need favors from in the future. It’s just structurally, the incentives are not there for particularly robust oversight,” said Kaplan.
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