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STATE OF LOUISIANA <br /> OF,LoOr�r DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL SERVICE <br /> LOUISIANA BOARD OF ETHICS <br /> P.O.BOX 4368 <br /> BATON ROUGE,LA 70821 <br /> (225)219-5600 <br /> «o»••' FAX:(225)381-7271 <br /> 1-800-842-6630 <br /> www.ethics.1a.gov <br /> June 10, 2025 <br /> K'Obert C. McCorquodale <br /> P.G. Box 3126 <br /> Lake Charles, Louisiana 70602 <br /> Re: Louisiana Board of Ethics Docket No. 2025-189 <br /> Advisory Opinion <br /> Dear Mr. McCorquodale: <br /> The Louisiana Board of Ethics,at its June 6,2025 meeting,considered your request for an advisory <br /> opinion as whether the Louisiana Code of Governmental Ethics permits you to provide legal <br /> services to the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office (the "CPSO") after your termination of part-time <br /> employment. <br /> FACTS PROVIDED <br /> You ormerly served as the head of the In-House Counsel's office for the CPSO. You resigned <br /> from that role effective January 2023. Subsequently, you were rehired by the CPSO as a part-time <br /> employee.In such role,you were no longer the head of the In-House Counsel's office,but provided <br /> gen.-ral legal services for the CPSO. <br /> �(ou are considering terminating your current part-time employment with the CPSO. You would <br /> like to know whether, after such termination of employment, you can provide legal services to the <br /> CPSO on a contract basis. <br /> LAW <br /> La. R.S.42:1121A(1)provides no former agency head or elected official shall,for a period of two <br /> years following the termination of his public service as the head of such agency or as an elected <br /> public official serving in such agency, assist another person, for compensation, in a transaction, or <br /> ir.: an appearance in connection with a transaction, involving that former agency or render any <br /> service on a contractual basis to or for such agency. <br /> La. R.S. 42:1121B provides no former public employee shall, for a period of two years following <br /> the -.erminatio a of his public employment,assist another person,for compensation,in a transaction, <br /> or in an appearance in connection with a transaction in which such former public employee <br /> participated at any time during his public employment and involving the governmental entity by <br /> ,�Yhicli he was formerly employed, or for a period of two years following the termination of his <br /> public employment, render, any service which such former public employee had rendered to the <br /> Page 1 of 3 (BD 2025-189) <br /> AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER <br />