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Advisory opinion request regarding whether the Code of Governmental Ethics prohibits a former employee of University View Academy from entering into transactions with her former agency. |
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Ms. Tiffany Mitchell-Davis is currently an instructional coach at UVA, in which role she trains, coaches, and supports teachers in certain instructional approaches and best practices. She does not currently hold a supervisory role within UVA and does not have responsibility for directing, managing, or overseeing any department, program, or personnel at UVA, nor has she ever taken part in any work at UVA related to micro-academics.
Upon leaving this position, Ms. Mitchell-Davis would seek to establish a "micro-academy," through which she would contract with UVA to provide small group and intervention tutoring to UVA students and to serve as a liaison between UVA staff and parents to help address student needs, communicate important information from UVA to micro-academy parents, and act as a mediator/ translator between UVA and micro-academy families.
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The inquiry states her name as Tiffany Davis-Mitchell, but Internet research indicates her name is Tiffany Mitchell-Davis.
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La. R.S. 42:1121B(1): 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.
Ethics Board Docket No: 2025-796: R.S. 42:1112B(1) of the Ethics Code
does not prohibit an attorney who was a former volunteer reserve deputy with
the Marshal's Office from providing, within two years of his termination of service,
compensated legal services to that Marshal's Office for any transaction
involving the Marshal's Office in which he did not participate during his service
as a reserve deputy.
1121B(1) does not prohibit
the former reserve deputy from rendering on a contractual basis, within two
years of his termination of service, new services to the Marshal's Office that
he has not previously rendered to, for, or on behalf of the Marshal's Office.
Ethics Board Docket No. 2017-614: R.S. 42:1121B does not prohibit a
former Local Government Assistant with the Office of Community Development from
assisting, within two years of termination of her public service, an
engineering consultant firm with new grant applications that she did not
participate in while a public servant.
Ethics Board Docket No. 2016-271: R.S. 42:1121B
does not prohibit a former Licensing Specialist with the Louisiana Department
of Education, which role included inspection of daycare facilities for compliance,
from owning and operating a daycare center, even though it would be licensed by
and supervised by the Department of Education.
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Adopt proposed advisory opinion.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Kelsey Simmons |
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