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Docket No. 12-1677
 
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RE:
Advisory opinion regarding whether Iberia Parish Councilwoman Aquicline Rener-Arnold may accept employment with the Louisiana Department of Social Services, Child Welfare Division as an investigator.
Facts:
Aquicline Rener-Arnold is a member of the Iberia Parish Council. She would like to accept employment with the Louisiana Department of Social Services, Child Welfare Division as an investigator. Ms. Rener-Arnold will be working with the St. Mary Parish Office of Department of Social Services.
Law:
La. R.S. 42:1111C(2)(d) prohibits a public servant and a legal entity in which the public servant exercises control or owns an interest from receiving any thing of economic value for services rendered to or for any person during his public service unless such services are neither performed for nor compensated by any person from whom such public servant would be prohibited by Section 1115(A)(1) or (B) from receiving a gift.
La. R.S. 42:1115A(1) prohibits a public servant from soliciting or accepting, directly or indirectly, any thing of economic value as a gift or gratuity from any person or from any officer, director, agent, or employee of such person, if such public servant knows or reasonably should know that such person has or is seeking to have a contractual, business or financial relationship with the public servant's agency.

La. R.S. 42:1111C(1)(a) prohibits a public servant from receiving any thing of economic value for any service, the subject matter of which is devoted substantially to the responsibilities, programs, or operations of the agency of the public servant and in which the public servant has participated.

Recommendations:
Adopt proposed advisory opinion.

Assigned Attorney: Tracy Barker
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2012-1677 Draft Opinion
2012-1677- Advisory Opinion Request