| Advisory opinion request from Molly Talbot, employee of Louisiana Dept. of Education, relating to providing non-compensated services to an educational non-profit while employed with the Department of Education. |
|
Molly Talbot is currently a board member of Pointe Coupee Early Childhood Coalition ("PCECC"), a nonprofit that works with the community to promote preschool education. She recently joined the Louisiana Department of Education ("LDE") as a member on the Academic Content Team within the Office of Teaching and Learning.
Ms. Talbot's position at PCECC is strictly voluntary and non-compensated, and is not an elected position.
PCECC seeks grants and other funding from LDE from time to time.
|
|
La. R.S. 42:1112B(3) states that no public servant shall participate in a transaction involving the governmental entity in which, to his actual knowledge, any person of which he is an officer, director, trustee, partner, or employee has a substantial economic interest.
La. R.S. 42:1111C(2)(d) provides that no public servant and no legal entity in which the public servant exercises control or owns an interest in excess of twenty-five percent, shall receive any thing of economic value for or in consideration of services rendered, or to be rendered, to or for any person during his public service unless such services are: (d) Neither performed for nor compensated by 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 obtain contractual or other business or financial relationships with the public servant's agency.
|
|
|
Adopt proposed advisory opinion.
|
|
| Assigned Attorney: |
Charles Reeves |
|
|