| Advisory opinion request regarding post-employment restrictions that would apply to John Egan Jones, Executive Director of Central LA Human Services District, after his retirement. |
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The Department of Health and Hospitals created ten human services districts in ten regions of Louisiana which provide behavioral health and developmental disabilities community-based services. John Egan Jones has been employed as the Executive Director of one of the newest districts, Central LA Human Services District ("CLHSD"), since 2012. Most of the services provided by CLHSD are through contracts with private providers.
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Section 1121A of the Code prohibits a former agency head or elected official, for a period of two years following the termination of his public service as the head of such agency, from assisting another person, for compensation, in a transaction, or in an appearance in connection with a transaction, involving that agency or from rendering any service on a contractual basis to or for such agency.
Section 1121B of the Code prohibits a former public employee, for a period of two years following the termination of his public employment, from assisting another person, for compensation, in a transaction, or in an appearance in connection with a transaction in which the 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 termination of his public employment, rendering, on a contractual basis to or for the agency with which he was formerly employed, any service which such former public employee had rendered to the agency during the term of his public employment.
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Adopt the proposed advisory opinion.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Jennifer Land |
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