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STATE OF LOUISIANA <br /> OF•L�Orsf DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL SERVICE <br /> LOUISIANA BOARD OF ETHICS <br /> .V 9 P.O. BOX 4368 <br /> + 1 <br /> BATON ROUGE,LA 70821 <br /> �Ororioerc�'• (225)219-5600 <br /> «o«••' FAX:(225)381-7271 <br /> 1-800-842-6630 <br /> www.ethics.1a.gov <br /> February 9, 2026 <br /> Eugene Cooke <br /> 12440 Cardeza Ave. <br /> Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70816 <br /> Re: Docket No. 2025-723 <br /> Advisory Opinion <br /> Dear Mr. Cooke: <br /> The Louisiana Board of Ethics, at its meeting on February 6, 2026, considered your advisory <br /> opinion request as to whether the Code of Governmental Ethics ("Code") permits you to solicit <br /> and secure business with the Office of Behavioral Health and other State agencies for which you <br /> would receive a commission while your wife is an employee of the Office of Behavioral Health. <br /> FACTS PROVIDED <br /> Your wife. Terri Cooke, is employed by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals <br /> ("LDH") in the Office of Behavioral Health ("OBH"). She is a Program Monitor with Fiscal <br /> Operations under OBH's Administration and Finance Unit. You and your wife maintain a <br /> community property regime. You stated that you and your wife share everything, including your <br /> earned incomes. <br /> You are a sales agent for Terraboost Media Operating Company("Terraboost Media"), which is a <br /> marketing company that provides advertising kiosks in retail stores, including Albertsons, CVS. <br /> Walgreens, and other retail locations across the United States. You receive a commission from <br /> Terraboost Media for every service contract you secure for Terraboost Media. You are neither <br /> employed by nor have an ownership interest in Terraboost Media. <br /> OBH currently has positive awareness advertising campaigns concerning gambling problems, the <br /> 988-suicide hotline, pregnant and parenting women, etc., with advertisements located in Walmart <br /> pharmacies, bodegas. convenience stores, and mini-marts. You are interested in offering the same <br /> type of service to OBH and other State agencies through Terraboost Media's advertising kiosks <br /> located in Albertsons, Kroger's, CVS, and other pharmacies in the State of Louisiana. <br /> LAW <br /> La. R.S. 42:1111C(2)(d) provides that no public servant and no legal entity in which the public <br /> servant exercises control or owns an interest in excess of twenty-five percent, shall receive any <br /> thing of economic value for or in consideration of services rendered, or to be rendered, to or for <br /> any person during his public service unless such services are: (d) Neither performed for nor <br /> compensated by any person or from any officer, director, agent, or employee of such person, if <br /> such public servant knows or reasonably should know that such person has or is seeking to obtain <br /> Page 1 of 3 (BI) 2025-723) <br /> AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER <br />