
Joyce Anderson
75:09 - 75:49
"when I came on board as administrator in 2001, we were not charged with this particular training, and it came about during Jerry Anderson's time. I have always felt that adding this to the ethics training has reduced the ethics training which has limited then the information that is given to both legislators and staff."
“when I came on board as administrator in 2001, we were not charged with this particular training, and it came about during Jerry Anderson's time. I have always felt that adding this to the ethics training has reduced the ethics training which has limited then the information that is given to both legislators and staff.”
Anybody have any opinions with respect to Kevin's—. Mr. Chair, I hate to keep— I hate being the only person talking, but when I came on board as administrator in 2001, we were not charged with this particular training, and it came about during Jerry Anderson's time, which— when he replaced— not replaced, but filled the position when I retired. I have always felt that adding this to the ethics training has reduced the ethics training which has limited then the information that is given to both legislators and staff. And sometimes I think ethics is very complicated.
Alaska's overhauled Legislative Ethics Act took effect June 24 after Gov. Dunleavy declined to sign it, adding a hard statutory requirement that legislators document the legislative purpose behind any travel gifts they accept.

The Select Committee on Legislative Ethics disclosed Friday that a legislator and a legislative employee submitted only a travel itinerary for an Arctic Winter Games trip and declined to provide any further narrative of legislative purpose, exposing a gap that new state law now closes by making agenda submission a hard statutory requirement.

The Select Committee on Legislative Ethics voted unanimously Friday to direct staff to send a letter to the HR manager and Legislative Counsel seeking relief from conducting sexual harassment and civility training, arguing the assignment falls outside its statutory authority and crowds out substantive ethics instruction.
