All interested parties are invited to attend.  Please mark your calendars accordingly.  For a history of the proceedings of all previous meetings and the agenda for this meeting when it is finalized, please see the COJ.net Ethics webpage at http://www.coj.net/departments/ethics-commission/notices,-agendas---minutes-(1).aspx.

Following the Ethics Commission meeting, there will be an Executive Session “shade”  meeting (pursuant to Section 112.324, Florida Statutes) of the Ethics Commission to discuss a pending case.*

*112.324(2)(a), (c), (e), F.S., provide in pertinent part:  “The complaint and records relating to the complaint or to any preliminary investigation held by…a Commission on Ethics and Public Trust established by any…municipality…are confidential and exempt from the provisions of s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. Any . . . proceeding conducted by…a Commission on Ethics and Public Trust, …pursuant to a complaint or preliminary investigation, is exempt from the provisions of s. 286.011, s 24(b), Art. I of the State Constitution, and s. 120.525. The exemptions in paragraphs (a)-(d) apply until:  1.  [t]he complaint is dismissed as legally insufficient; [t]he alleged violator requests in writing that such records and proceedings be made public; 3. [t]he commission determines that it will not investigate the referral; or 4.  . . . a Commission on Ethics and Public Trust . . . determines, based on such investigation, whether probable cause exists to believe that a violation has occurred.”

Please contact Carla Miller, ECO Director, at ethics@coj.net, or Kirby G. Oberdorfer, ECO Deputy Director, at koberdorfer@coj.net  / (904) 630-4747 for additional information or correspondence.