| Advisory opinion regarding whether the Code of Governmental Ethics prohibits Two Kings Creations, LLC, a business in which an officer employed with the Lincoln Parish Sheriff's Office who is a school resource officer holds a controlling interest, from selling school uniforms to the families of students at the school to which the officer is assigned. |
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Bryan King is an officer with the Lincoln Parish Sheriff's Office employed as a school resource officer. Mr. King and his wife, Karla King, each own 25% of Two Kings Creations, LLC, an embroidery and t-shirt business. Two Kings Creations would like to sell school uniforms to the families of the students at the school where he is assigned as the school resource officer.
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La. R.S. 42:1111C(2)(d) provides that no public servant and no legal entity in which the public servant exercises control or owns an interest in excess of twenty-five percent, shall receive any thing of economic value for or in consideration of services rendered, or to be rendered, to or for any person during his public service unless such services are: (d) Neither performed for nor compensated by any person or from any officer, director, agent, or employee of such person, if such public servant knows or reasonably should know that such person has or is seeking to obtain contractual or other business or financial relationships with the public servant's agency; conducts operations or activities which are regulated by the public employee's agency; or has substantial economic interests which may be substantially affected by the performance or nonperformance of the public employee's official duty.
La. R.S. 42:1113A(1)(a) No public servant, excluding any legislator and any appointed member of any board or commission and any member of a governing authority of a parish with a population of ten thousand or less, or member of such a public servant's immediate family, or legal entity in which he has a controlling interest shall bid on or enter into any contract, subcontract, or other transaction that is under the supervision or jurisdiction of the agency of such public servant.
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Adopt proposed advisory opinion.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Tracy Barker |
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