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STATE OF LOUISIANA <br /> "'� ,,,,,' DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL SERVICE <br /> p�OF LOpjs.., <br /> 's4`; tn,'' , LOUISIANA BOARD OF ETHICS <br /> it' P.O.BOX 4368 <br /> • ' .G. BATON ROUGE, LA 70821 <br /> °r, d (225)219-5600 <br /> ,,,,,,,n'''0 FAX (225)381-7271 <br /> 1-800-842-6630 <br /> wwwethicsstatela.us <br /> October 22, 2013 <br /> Eileen Fourroux <br /> 24050 Marshall Street <br /> Plaquemine, LA 70764 <br /> Re: Ethics Board Docket No. 2013-1241 <br /> Dear Ms. Fourroux: <br /> The Louisiana Board of Ethics, at its October 18, 2013 meeting, considered your request for an <br /> advisory opinion concerning post-employment restrictions that would apply to you as a former <br /> employee of the Department of Children and Family Services ("DCFS"). You stated that you <br /> officially retired from DCFS on October 1, 2011, but that you are currently employed with <br /> DCFS performing part-time WAE duties relating to coordination, facilitation, and management <br /> of Louisiana Children's Justice Act Task Force program activities. You also stated that you are <br /> interested in accepting a job as an administrative assistant to the Executive Director with the <br /> Pelican Center for Children and Families ("Pelican Center"). Your job duties would include a <br /> range of administrative support activities related to projects undertaken by Pelican Center. If you <br /> decide to accept this position with Pelican Center, you will terminate your employment with <br /> DCFS entirely. The Pelican Center is not under the supervision or jurisdiction of DCFS and <br /> currently is not engaged in any transactions with DCFS and does not receive any funding from <br /> DCFS. However, it is foreseeable that Pelican Center may engage in transactions with DCFS in <br /> the future, such as the receipt of federal and state funds administered by DCFS. Any such <br /> transactions between the Pelican Center and DCFS would not involve any matters in which you <br /> participated during your employment with DCFS. Finally, you stated that you have provided <br /> contract services related to the start-up and initial operations of the Pelican Center in the past. <br /> These services were not related to the responsibilities, programs or operations of DCFS in which <br /> you participated. <br /> The Board concluded and instructed me to inform you that the Code of Governmental Ethics <br /> would not prohibit you from becomingemployed with Pelican Center to provide administrative <br /> support services to the Executive Director after you terminate your employment with DCFS. <br /> Section 1121B(1) of the Code of Governmental Ethics states that no former public employee <br /> shall, for a period of two years following the termination of his public employment, assist <br /> another person, for compensation, in a transaction, or in an appearance in connection with a <br /> transaction in which such former public employee participated at any time during his public <br /> employment and involving the governmental entity by which he was formerly employed. Section <br /> 1102 (16) defines "person" as an individual or legal entity other than a governmental entity, or <br /> an agency thereof Section 1121B(1) goes on to prohibit a former public employee, for a period <br /> of two years following the termination of his public employment, from rendering any service <br /> which such former public employee had rendered to the agency during the term of his <br /> employment on a contractual basis, regardless of the parties to the contract, to, for, or on behalf <br /> AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER <br />