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Agenda Item
Docket No. 12-678
 
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RE:
Request for an advisory opinion from Ms. Kelli Cavalier-Barbee (an employee with the Iberville Parish School System) concerning when she is no longer the immediate family member of Michael Barbee (a member of the Iberville Parish School Board) following the divorce from her husband.
Facts:
Ms. Cavalier-Barbee is currently a teacher with the Iberville Parish School System. Recently, she obtained her certification in administration and is looking to be promoted in the school system to assistant principal. However, Michael Barbee (her husband's brother) is on the school board, and according to La. R.S. 1119, she is unable to be employed in the Iberville Parish School System in any other capacity but a classroom teacher. Since Ms. Cavalier-Barbee's divorce was signed and final as of June 13, 2012, she seeks the Board's opinion as to when she is no longer defined as a member of the school board member's immediate family.

Law:
Section 1119 of the Code of Ethics states that no member of the immediate family of an agency head shall be employed in his agency.

Section 1102(13) defines immediate family as children, the spouses of his children, his brothers and their spouses, his sisters and their spouses, his parents, his spouse, and the parents of his spouse.

Recommendations:
Adopt the proposed advisory opinion.

Assigned Attorney: Brent Durham
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2012-678 (Cavalier-Barbee Divorce final for 1119)
2012-678- Advisory Opinion Request
2012-678 (Follow-up)