| Advisory opinion regarding whether Charlene Worley, an employee with the Department of Children and Family Services, may apply for the position of project manager with RedMane Technologies to work on a contract with the Department of Children and Family Services to maintain and enhance the child support system, which may include maintaining elements of the CAFÉ system. |
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Additional information was sought to determine if Ms. Worley was seeking an opinion on outside employment or the application of the post employment restrictions. Information as to her exact job duties while employed with the Department of Children and Family Services as well as her exact job duties with RedMane was sought. It appeared by the request that duties at both entities may involve the CAFE system and additional information was sought as to that aspect. A response was due by March 4, 2015. No response was received.
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La. R.S. 42:1111C(2)(d) provides that no public servant and no legal entity in which the public servant exercises control or owns an interest in excess of twenty-five percent, shall receive any thing of economic value for or in consideration of services rendered, or to be rendered, to or for any person during his public service unless such services are: (d) Neither performed for nor compensated by any person or from any officer, director, agent, or employee of such person, if such public servant knows or reasonably should know that such person has or is seeking to obtain contractual or other business or financial relationships with the public servant's agency; conducts operations or activities which are regulated by the public employee's agency; or has substantial economic interests which may be substantially affected by the performance or nonperformance of the public employee's official duty.
La. R.S. 42:1121A(1) provides no former agency head or elected official shall, for a period of two years following the termination of his public service as the head of such agency or as an elected public official serving in such agency, assist another person, for compensation, in a transaction, or in an appearance in connection with a transaction, involving that former agency or render any service on a contractual basis to or for such agency.
La. R.S. 42:1121B provides no former public employee shall, for a period of two years following the termination of his public employment, assist another person, for compensation, in a transaction, or in an appearance in connection with a transaction in which such former public employee participated at any time during his public employment and involving the governmental entity by which he was formerly employed, or for a period of two years following the termination of his public employment, render, any service which such former public employee had rendered to the agency during the term of his public employment on a contractual basis, regardless of the parties to the contract, to, for, or on behalf of the agency with which he was formerly employed.
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Decline to render absent the requested additional information.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Tracy Barker |
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