| Request for approval of a Disqualification Plan submitted by Karl Mann, DeSoto Parish Emergency Medical Service Assistant Administrator, concerning the employment of his wife by DeSoto Parish EMS. |
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Karl Mann has been employed with the DeSoto Parish Emergency Medical Service since September 1, 2001. He became full-time on September 10, 2012 and he was promoted to Assistant Administrator on November 14, 2016. Dianne Parker has been employed with the DeSoto Parish Emergency Medical Service since July 4, 2008. She became full-time on February 20, 2011.
On April 27, 2019, Karl Mann and Dianne Parker got married. On April 17, 2019, Karl Mann submitted a disqualification plan to Joe Magee, the Administrator of the DeSoto Parish Emergency Medical Service designating Joe Magee as the employee responsible for employment decisions involving Dianne Parker and removing Karl Mann from any involvement.
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La. R.S. 42:1112B(1) states that no public servant shall participate in a transaction involving the governmental entity in which, to his actual knowledge, any member of his immediate family has a substantial economic interest.
La. R.S. 42:1112C allows a disqualification plan to be developed in accordance with rules adopted by the Board to remove a public servant from participating in transactions that would otherwise present violations of Section 1112 of the Code.
La. R.S. 42:1119A states that no member of the immediate family of an agency head shall be employed in his agency.
La. R.S. 42:1119C(2) provides that the provisions of this Section shall not prohibit the continued employment of any public employee nor shall it be construed to hinder, alter, or in any way affect normal promotional advancements for such public employee where a member of public employee's immediate family becomes the agency head of such public employee's agency, provided that such public employee has been employed in the agency for a period of at least one year prior to the member of the public employee's immediate family becoming the agency head.
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Approve the Disqualification Plan.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Tracy Barker |
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