After a five-month delay, DeKalb County Commissioners recently appointed the seventh member to serve on its ethics board.
Clara Black Delay, a retired senior ethics attorney for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, marks a full board for the first time in years. A special grand jury looking into allegations of corruption in DeKalb singled out the board as a lagging watchdog in the county.
Interim CEO Lee May has proposed a significant budget increase the ethics panel, which will soon complete training and resume hearings on complaints.
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