DeKalb creates new position to address rampant ethical concerns
Stung by a series of ethical and perhaps criminal lapses among DeKalb County employees and elected officials, County CEO Lee May today signed an Executive Order tighten the county’s ethics rules.
May said the order “compiles and clarifies ethics rules for all employees of the administration.”
The order also creates a new full-time chief integrity officer that will report directly to the DeKalb County Board of Ethics.
“I am beyond tired reading about employees of DeKalb County violating the public’s trust and the law,” May said in an afternoon press conference. “We need more tools to ensure ethics and integrity in our county.”
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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.
