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STATE OF LOUISIANA <br /> " Lopc�9 DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL SERVICE <br /> r �•, F LOUISIANA BOARD OF ETHICS <br /> Y P.O.BOX 4368 <br /> BATON ROUGE,LA 70821 <br /> c01 r DEVI (225)219-5600 <br /> '-•»wFAX:(225)381-7271 <br /> 1-800-842-6630 <br /> www.ethics.1a.gov <br /> October 7, 2025. <br /> Cynthia Leger <br /> 511 N. Lightner Ave. <br /> Iowa, Louisiana 70647 <br /> Ite: Docket No.2025-465 <br /> Advisory Opinion <br /> Dear Ms. Leger: <br /> The Louisiana.Board of Ethics, at its October 3, 2025 meeting, considered your advisory opinion <br /> request as to whether the Code of Governmental Ethics (the "Code") permits you to provide <br /> services to ouiside agencies during your employment and after your retirement. <br /> FACTS PROVIDED <br /> �(ou currently serve as Special Education Reporting("SER") Data Coordinator within the Special <br /> EdLca.tion Department of Calcasieu Parish School Board("CPSB"). In such role, you report to the <br /> head of the Special Education Department. You currently plan to retire from CPSB effective <br /> Janizary 1, 2026. <br /> You would like to know whether you may offer consulting services to SER employees in other <br /> parish--s either prior to or after your retirement. You would also like to confirm whether you can <br /> o'fer your consulting services to CPSB after your retirement. <br /> LAW <br /> La.R.S.42:1.113A states that no public servant,or a member of such a public servant's immediate <br /> family,or a legal entity in which he has a controlling interest shall bid on or enter into any contract, <br /> sub,;ontract or other transaction that is under the supervision or jurisdiction of the agency of such <br /> public servant. <br /> Lai. R.S. 42:11.2113 provides no former public employee shall, for a period of two years following <br /> th.e'.erminatio--n 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 /> which 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 /> a-geacy during the term of his public employment on a contractual basis, regardless of the parties <br /> t )the contract,to, for, or on behalf of the agency with which he was formerly employed. <br /> Page 1 of 3 (BD 2025-465) <br /> AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER <br />