| Advisory opinion as to whether the Code of Governmental
Ethics would prohibit the advancement of a substitute employee (substitute
teacher, substitute bus driver, substitute paraprofessional) to a full-time
permanent support paraprofessional position with the Beauregard Parish School
Board ("School Board") while the employee's husband serves as a member of the
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Jennifer Sandifer has been employed with the School
Board as a substitute teacher, substitute bus driver and substitute paraprofessional
since August 2015, with no lapse in employment.
Ms. Sandifer is currently seeking a full-time permanent support paraprofessional
position with the School Board. Mr.
Sandifer was elected to the School Board in the November 8, 2022 election. He took office on January 1, 2023.
In Docket No. 2022-811, the Board issued an Advisory
Opinion to Jennifer Sandifer advising that she could accept a position as
Secretary/Clerk with Singer High School since she would have been employed for
more than one year prior to her husband's election to the School Board.
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La. R.S. 42:1119A provides that no member of the
immediate family of an agency head shall be employed in his agency.
La. R.S.42:1102 (13) defines "immediate
family" as the term relates to a public servant as his children, the
spouses of his children, his brothers and their spouses, his sisters and their
spouses, his parents, his spouse, and the parents of his spouse.
La. R.S. 42:1119C(2) provides that the provisions
of this Section shall not prohibit the continued employment of any public
employee nor shall it be construed to hinder, alter, or in any way affect
normal promotional advancements for such public employee where a member of
public employees' immediate family becomes the agency head of such public
employee's agency, provided that such public employee has been employed in the
agency for a period of at least one year prior to the member of the public
employee's immediate family becoming the agency head.
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Adopted proposed advisory opinion.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Tracy Barker |
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