| Advisory opinion request as to whether the Code of Governmental Ethics prohibits Allie DeLeo-Allen's company, DKB Solutions, LLC, from providing contractual services to Louisiana Tech University 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, Allie DeLeo-Allen is the sole owner of DKB Solutions, LLC, which provides grant writing and project management services. She has been approached by Louisiana Tech University to consult on and help coordinate and manage funding proposal projects for academic units and other university divisions outside of the College of Engineering and Science. She did not consult on or help coordinate and manage funding proposal projects at any time while employed by Louisiana Tech University.
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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: |
Jessica Meiners |
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