| Advisory opinion request regarding post-employment restrictions that would apply to Robert C. Hecker, Sr. as a former employee of Louisiana State University. |
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Robert C. Hecker, Sr. was employed at Louisiana State University as a part-time lecturer for the Carroll Herring Fire Emergency Training Institute (LSU FETI) until March 2019. During his employment, he was classified as a Wages As Earned (WAE) Lecturer, and his duties included teaching fire training classes to various fire departments. One of the fire departments that Mr. Hecker regularly lectured, David Crockett Steam Volunteer Fire Company Number One, has approached him to teach private lessons outside of the normal LSU FETI training schedule.
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Section 1121B of the Ethics 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 involving the agency of the former public employee, in which the public employee participated at any time during his public employment. Additionally, Section 1121B prohibits a former public employee, for a period of two years following the termination of his public employment, from rendering the same service which he rendered during his public employment on a contractual basis to, for, or on behalf of his former agency.
La. R.S. 42:1102(16) defines "person" to mean an individual or legal entity other than a governmental entity, or an agency thereof.
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Adopt the proposed advisory opinion.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Jennifer Land |
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