| A request for an advisory opinion, submitted by Jessica Thibodeaux, concerning whether the Louisiana Code of Governmental Ethics would prohibit the continued employment of her husband, Hodge Thibodeaux, at Assumption High School after she was named the principal on July 1, 2019. |
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Jessica Thibodeaux was hired as the principal of Assumption High School on July 1, 2019. Her husband, Hodge Thibodeaux, started at Assumption High School as a volunteer non-faculty coach in May 2017. In July 2018, Mr. Thibodeaux was hired as a non-faculty assistant baseball coach, which is a paid position. Since Mrs. Thibodeaux's appointment as principal occurred after Mr. Thibodeaux was hired as a non-faculty assistant baseball coach, she had no involvement with his hiring.
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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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Adopt the proposed recommendation.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
LaToya D. Jordan |
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