| Advisory Opinion regarding whether the Code of Governmental Ethics (Ethics Code) prohibits the Henry Whitehorn, Jr. from being re-employed with the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office prior to his father, Henry Whitehorn, Sr., taking office on July 1, 2024. |
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Henry Whitehorn, Jr. was previously employed with the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office for 19 years and 3 months. You stated that you were employed between September 26, 2022 until December 31, 2021.
Henry Whitehorn, Sr., father of Henry Whitehorn, Jr., has been elected to the office of Caddo Parish Sheriff and will take office on July 1, 2024. The current Sheriff is willing to hire Whitehorn, Jr. prior to his father taking office on July 1, 2024 and would like his prior employment with the Sheriff's office to count toward the one year calculation in R.S. 42:1119C(2).
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La. R.S. 42:1119A states that no member of the immediate family of an agency head shall be employed in his agency.
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 employee's 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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Adopt proposed advisory opinion.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Tracy Barker |
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