| Request for an advisory opinion as to whether the Code
of Governmental Ethics ("Code") prohibits Allie DeLeo-Allen from providing services to
Louisiana Tech University's Innovation Enterprise division following her retirement
from Louisiana Tech University. |
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Allie DeLeo-Allen was employed by Louisiana Tech University from
June 2012 to May 2023. During her entire tenure at Louisiana Tech University, she was employed within the College of Engineering and Science. Since
September 2021, she served as a lecturer in the
Instrumentation and Control Systems Engineering Technology ("ICET") Program
within the College of Engineering and Science. In this role, her primary
duty was to teach a variety of courses ranging from first-year to upper-level
engineering courses. She reported to the Director of ICET and Industrial
Engineering.
As of December 2023, she is the sole owner of DKB
Solutions, LLC, which provides grant writing and management services. She has been approached by Louisiana Tech University's Innovation Enterprise division
to help establish a grant writing program that guides student employees through
the grant writing process and serves faculty, external partners, and the Innovation
Enterprise team. The Innovation Enterprise division is led by the Chief
Innovation Officer and is separate from the College of Engineering and Science.
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La.
R.S. 42:1121B(1) 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
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.
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Adopt the proposed advisory opinion.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Mallory Guillot |
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