| A Request for an Advisory Opinion, submitted by Jenee Robins, concerning whether the the Code of Governmental Ethics ("Code") would prohibit her from supporting two (2) private school campuses through her education consulting company, TRANSCEND Education Consulting Service, LLC ("TRANSCEND") after terminating her public employment with the Louisiana Department of Education ("LDOE") in October 2021. |
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Ms. Robins was employed by the LDOE from August 23, 2021 to October 29, 2021 as an Education Program Consultant 3 in the Office of Teaching and Learning Special Projects Team. While in this role, she temporarily worked with public school districts in the Accelerate Cohort program. Her job was to ensure the cohort schools could implement the Accelerate program by coordinating trainings with vendors and providing feedback on sessions provided by the vendors. While employed by the LDOE, she never visited a campus.
Currently, she is attempting to support two (2) private school campuses through her company, TRANSCEND. Her work with TRANSCEND is geared towards the students, as opposed to the training and implementation of the Accelerate Cohort plan. Her goals are to increase students' ability to access on grade instruction, build student literacy, and accelerate student learning. The work with the private schools would be vastly different that the work performed for the LDOE. More importantly, it does not involve the Accelerate Cohort program.
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La. R.S. 42:1121(B) provides that no former public employee shall, for a period of two years following the termination of his public employment, assist another person, for compensation, in a transaction, or in an appearance in connection with a transaction in which such former public employee participated at any time during his public employment and involving the governmental entity by which he was formerly employed, or for a period of two years following the termination of his public employment, render, any service which such former public employee had rendered to the agency during the term of his public employment on a contractual basis, regardless of the parties to the contract, to, for, or on behalf of the agency with which he was formerly employed.
La. R.S. 42:1121(C) provides that no legal entity in which a former public servant is an officer, director, trustee, partner, or employee shall, for a period of two years following the termination of his public service, assist another person, for compensation, in a transaction, or in an appearance in connection with a transaction in which such public servant at any time participated during his public service and involving the agency by which he was formerly employed or in which he formerly held office.
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Adopt the proposed advisory opinion.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
LaToya D. Jordan |
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